Items Description of Module Subject Name Human Resource Management Paper Name Skill Development and Social Entrepreneurship Module Title Cases of successful social enterprises Module Id Module No. –39 Pre- Requisites Basic understanding of skills Objectives To develop conceptual understanding of skills and its uses Keywords Skills, Business Skills, Skill Development, Stages QUADRANT-I 1. Module: 39- Cases of Successful Social Enterprises 2. Learning Outcomes 3. Introduction to Social Entrepreneurs 4. Nine Social Entrepreneurial Case Studies 5. Summary 1. Module: 39- Cases of Successful Social Enterprises 2. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module, students will be able to discover that common people from amongst proceeded on to become successful social entrepreneurs establish that others have done it too around the world and innovation and greatness has no boundary or ethnicity. 3. Introduction to Social Entrepreneurs Successful social enterprises are all around us and there are numerous people who have achieved in creating them and are living stories. These are truly inspirational real life examples of common people who have become change agents for the society. We just need to open up our minds and let the change come in. Toward exploring through a set of ten stories that are as real live examples from our amidst our daily life we find these engines of social transformation and they inspire us to question ourselves in judging whether we too could have done something like them or would we like to tread their path to become a social entrepreneur? 4. Nine Social Entrepreneurial Cases Studies Story One: Dr. Muhammad Yunus- The Microfinance revolution One of the foremost torch bearers of social entrepreneurship in recent times would be Muhammad Yunus. Yunus is considered a foremost contemporary authority on microfinance and social capitalism and has been author to many books dedicated to this concept. Yunus has established a network of Grameen Banks that is dedicated to providing micro credits to rural customers who otherwise are ineligible for any credit loan under current bank rules and support their slow migration towards financial independence. Founded in 1983, the bank has brought in a net income of more than $10 million, and his work with the organization landed Yunus a Nobel Prize in 2006(Nobel Media AB, 2006). The third of nine children, Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bathua, by the Boxirhat Road in Hathazari, Chittagong in the Bengal Presidency of the British Raj, which today forms modern Bangladesh. His father was Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, a jeweller, and his mother was Sufia Khatun(Bangladesh News, 2006). Yunus studied at Chittagong College, he became active in cultural activities and won awards for drama. In 1957, he enrolled in the Department of Economics at Dhaka University and completed his BA in 1960 and MA in 1961(Wikimedia Foundation, 2016d). Story Two: Arvind Kejriwal- A Political Socio-engineer Arvind Kejriwal (born 16 August 1968) is the Chief Minister of Delhi since February 2015. He is the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party. His meteoric rise as a politician came from his commitment to fight corruption and transparent development that won the hearts of the people of our National Capital Territory Delhi which has a literacy rate above 88%. His party won the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections with a majority, obtaining 67 out of 70 assembly seats (Elections.in, 2016). Kejriwal is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and worked in the Indian Revenue Service as a Joint Commissioner of the Income Tax Department in New Delhi. He is also reported to have worked at Tata Steel and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. He founded Parivartan (NGO) to initiate citizen empowerment via the Right to Information (RTI) act and participatory citizen forums. He believes in the philosophy that democratic rights should be exercised not only in elections but also in policy implementation and budget allocations. In 2006, Kejriwal was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership recognising his involvement in the grassroots movement Parivartan. The same year, after resigning from the IRS, he donated his Magsaysay award money as a corpus fund to found the Public Cause Research Foundation NGO(Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, 2006). In 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, and the party won in the 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election. Following the election, he took office as the Chief Minister of Delhi on 28 December 2013. He resigned 49 days later, on 14 February 2014, stating he did so because of his minority government's inability to pass his proposed anti-corruption legislation due to a lack of support from other political parties(Ali, Kant, & Ashok, 2014). On 14 February 2015, he was sworn in as Chief Minister for a second term after his party's victory in the Delhi Assembly election(Wikimedia Foundation, 2016b). Story Three: Dr Bindeshwar Pathak- Human rights champion Dr Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of Sulabh International(Rastogi); an India-based social service organization which works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, and non- conventional sources of energy. Other initiatives by Sulabh Foundation are waste management and social reforms through education. He is the current Brand Ambassador for Swachh Rail Mission of Indian Railways(Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, 2016a). His work is considered pioneering in social reform, especially in the field of sanitation and hygiene. He received various national and international awards for his work with this organization. He has received a great deal of national and international recognition for his work, including the Stockholm Water Prize in 2009, and he is considered a pioneer for social reform. Bindeshwar Pathak was born on 2nd April 1943 in Rampur, Bihar. He graduated in Sociology in 1964. He earned his master's degree in 1980 and his PhD in 1985, from the University of Patna. A prolific writer and speaker, Pathak has authored several books, the most well-known of which is The Road to Freedom. He understood the plight of scavengers and joined the Bhangi-Mukti (scavengers’ liberation) Cell of the Bihar Gandhi Centenary Celebrations Committee. At that time he was pursuing his Ph.D. research, so he travelled all over India and spent time with scavengers to have an actual understanding of the social segregation and inhuman rejection of this community(Sulabh International Social Service Organisation, 2016b). Drawing on that experience, he resolved to take action, not only out of sympathy for the scavengers but also in the belief that scavenging is a dehumanizing practice that would ultimately have a destructive impact on modern Indian society(Foundation, 2016). Story Four: Roshaneh Zafar- Woman Empowerment Roshaneh Zafar is a Pakistani female entrepreneur, working for women's economic empowerment. Roshaneh Zafar founded the Kashf Foundation in 1996, first specialized microfinance organization in Pakistan and serves as its Managing Director(Wikimedia Foundation, 2016f). She is inspired by works of Dr Yunus of Grameen Bank fame in Bangladesh, a Noble laureate who is considered an authority in microfinance. Prior to establishing the foundation, she worked with the World Bank in Islamabad for several years. Roshaneh Zafar was one of the first Ashoka Fellows in Pakistan and has been a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur since 2004(Women's World Banking, 2016). Roshaneh Zafar has also been awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan’s highest civilian awards, by the President of Pakistan for her work in the field of development and women’s empowerment and was also awarded the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007(KASHF FOUNDATION, 2016). Roshaneh Zafar is a graduated from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA and also holds a Masters degree in Development Economics from Yale University, USA. Roshaneh Zafar featured in Ashoka blog on Forbes.com where she discussed problems and challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in Pakistan when she was asked “What is the inspiration that led you to the field of women’s empowerment in particular?”(Changemakers, 2013) Story Five: Zubaida Bai –Female Healthcare Technopreneur Zubaida Bai, raised in Chennai, India studied at University. She earned her Master’s in Engineering in product development and design, and an MBA from Colorado State University. It is reported that Zubaida, during her first parturition she developed an infection after giving birth to her first child which "caused her to suffer for years." She realised it as a common problem faced by rural women in India who are often geographically isolated from standard health facilities, particularly vulnerable during maternity period. This inspired her to do something for the health care of expecting women and founded AYZH. Bai was named a TED Fellow in 2009, an Ashoka Maternal Health fellow in 2010–2011, and an Echoing Green fellow in 2012. In 2011, her design for JANMA, a clean birth kit, was selected by INDEX Awards as one of 61 products "globally designed to improve life"(D Lab, 2013). Zubaida Bai is now widely renowned in the field of engineering design for low-cost health products customized for the developing world. Her work at the bottom of the pyramid demonstrates her passion for empowering underserved women and girls. Her company, AYZH, designs vital healthcare products for women and girls in poverty. Now her company is expanding their kit style approach to include reproductive, maternal, child adolescent health products, extending these values and empowerment to millions of women and children throughout the developing world. AYZH is positioned to become a leader in the space of sustainable, social business focused on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals(Goodier, 2016). In June 2016, Zubaida was named an SDG Pioneer at the UN’s SDG Global Compact Summit for her work(India, 2016).