By 4pm London time the day before, nominated students will share a short reading reflection, reacting to and summarizing their assigned reading in the course Discord.

This assignment is not graded but your instructor will keep track of who submits and who does not.

• Students will be nominated to reflect on one or more specific reading by the instructor.
• Students will find out which readings they have been nominated to reflect on Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
• Students may express their preferences by email to their instructor by Tuesday, May 18, 4:00pm London time.
• Preferences will be honored as much as possible, with the caveat that the course's readings must be as evenly distributed as possible.
• If the class is large, some students may be assigned the same reading, however, this is an individual assignment and unique summaries must be produced. If the class is smaller, some students may be assigned more than one reading.
• Each reading reflection should be 1-3 paragraphs long and posted in the course Discord.
• Please post your summary promptly at the designated time in the course Discord. You may also email the instructor the evening before if you need help posting the summary in the Discord.

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• Points to consider in your reading reflection

Completed reflections

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Readings eligible for Reflection (choose your preference)

Week 1: Hybridity Emergence

How did hybrid social ventures emerge?

1. Stop Trying to Save the World. Article by Michael Hobbes for The New Republic. November 18, 2014.
2. The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits. Article by Milton Friedman for The New York Times Magazine September 13, 1970
3. What makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?. Article by Saras Sarasvathy for Society for Effectual Action. 2001

Week 2: Reactions to Hybridity

How have different actors responded to the emergence of hybrid social ventures?

1. Strategic Responses to Hybrid Social Ventures. Research article by Matthew Lee; Jason Jay in California Management Review. 05/2015 link
2. Vision Statement: When Failure Looks Like Success. Article by by Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy, and Open from Harvard Business Review. April 2011. Link to graphic here.

Week 3: Co-creating hybrid solutions

How will you approach your social, environmental or economic issue of choice?

1. Are you solving the right problems? Article by Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg from Harvard Business Review. 2017. - Rhea
2. Is my big idea really outside the box? Webpage by Yingting Sherry Chen 2019 - Anna
3. Stop Jumping to Solutions in MIT Sloan management review Article by Barsoux, Jean-Louis 01/06/2016 - Milo

Week 4: Pro-purpose approaches to revenue and growth

How boldly will you integrate or separate your social and revenue-generating activities?

1. In Search of the Hybrid Ideal in Stanford social innovation review by Cheryl Dorsey 01/07/2012 - Anna
2. Making Hybrids Work: Aligning Business Models and Organizational Design for Social Enterprises in California Management Review by Filipe Santos; Anne-Claire Pache; Christoph Birkholz. 05/2015 - Rhea
3. Disrupting beliefs: A new approach to business-model innovation by Marc de Jong and Menno van Dijk for McKinsey Quarterly. July 1, 2015. https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/disrupting-beliefs-a-new-approach-to-business-model-innovation - Milo

Week 5: Impact measurement

How will you explain the progress you want to make and/or have made?

1. What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale and Scope of Social Performance in California Management Review by Alnoor Ebrahim; V. Kasturi Rangan 05/2014 - Milo
2. What is impact? by Impact Management Project. 2021. - Rhea

Week 6: Mission evolution

How will you refine your definition of success for the better?

1. The founder of TOMS on reimagining the company's mission in Harvard business review Article by Mycoskie, Blake 01/01/2016 - Anna
2. RSA ANIMATE: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce Audio-visual document by Slavoj Zizek 28/07/2010