MBA

Award-winning investees: Acumen Fund entrepreneurs continue to be recognized for their work. The founders of D.Light Design were among Social Venture Network’s 2009 Innovation Award winners. And the entrepreneurs behind Books of Hope were recently named as Purpose Prize Fellows. Congratulations!

Investee interview: Listen to Sam Goldman of D. Light in his recent podcast for the Social Innovation Conversations series.

MBAs and social enterprise: This article in the Financial Times discusses how business school coursework is responding to the rise of social enterprise. Acumen Fund investee LifeSpring is mentioned and our own Yasmina Zaidman is quoted.

Patient capital around the world: The concept of patient capital is gaining traction globally, as in this coverage in Gulf News of CEO Jacqueline Novogratz’s recent visit to Dubai and this LiveMint article from India.

“If you could change your life,” Seth asks, “would you?”

Seth Godin just announced an alternative MBA that he’s personally giving to a small group — application deadline is December 14, program starts January 19th, six months with Seth and a select group of people. It sounds amazing. You should tell amazing people you know about it.

Hats off to Seth for caring only about things that are valuable (as opposed to what’s conventional and expected), and for his being totally willing to put his money where his mouth is in terms of creativity, innovation, and break-all-the rules ideas. I’ve no doubt this will be incredible.

Here’s the full scoop: http://www.squidoo.com/Alternative-MBA.

Want to know a little about your professor-to-be? Check out Seth’s talk, “Influencing the Masses”, which he delivered at last month’s Acumen Fund Investor Gathering.