Social Venture Capital

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Social Venture Capital is seed, early stage or growth private capital that seeks to achieve market based financial returns while making a positive social impact. This course will focus on deals and social venture funds investing in those deals. In each case, we look at the deal from the lens of both the fund investing in the deal as well as the entrepreneur creating the business. The course focuses on deal, investment and growth strategy, managerial choices in creating and building businesses as well as the unique challenges of creating and running a social venture business or creating a social venture fund. Cases used in the course will be presented by the business entrepreneur or a member of the venture fund who invested in the deal. The course will also cover current methods of evaluating ESG considerations in private capital investing. The course is case-based covering deals in U.S. and Emerging Markets, investments made in debt and/or equity, as well as a variety of expected positive social impact spanning job creation, health care, agriculture and community development. This course complements but is not a replacement for Impact Investing and Private Equity and Venture Capital. This course is intended for Second Year MBA's unless prior permission from the instructor is received. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.