Learning Goals

We will learn about creating a venture that does well by doing good. Our focus in this class is to see how the lessons that we learned so far apply to social ventures. We will discuss the case of Grameen Bank started by Nobel laureate Dr. Mohammad Yunus.

3/22: Social Ventures

We will discuss the case and 2-3 groups will lead the case discussion.

Readings: Grameen Bank Case

http://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/documents/SM116.pdf

Video: TED Talk

Questions:

1. Grameen recently started Grameen America to extend Grameen social business model to the United States. What are the challenges to extending the same model to the US?

Class Slides: Sp Topic SE