Activities

Entrepreneurship Academy

E-Cell Requirements:

Students:

Registration Fees Rs.250/- per student to be a E Cell Member

·         20 E-Cell members

The selection process for the E-Cell should be highly competitive and members of the E-Cell should possess the following characteristics: strong leadership skills, creative, hardworking, passionate for entrepreneurship, dedicated to developing entrepreneurial skills, committed to meeting once a week and fully engaging in E-Cell activities

Faculty Mentors:

• Notify the students about the activities that they will be doing with the E Cell at the time of registration

·         A member of the faculty who will assist with facilitating E-Cell activities and serve as a liaison between the E-Cell and the Deshpande Center for Social Entrepreneurship.

Activities

• IT training for the E Cell students and Faculties
• Inauguration of the E Cell (Physical space in the college)
• Competition
• Facebook and Blog
• Movie making
• Case study competition
• Arrange one guest speaker per month
• 2K challenge
• E Cell meeting twice a week in your college
• E Cell meetings
• Entrepreneur blurb (Weekly)
• One big event

Physical space:

·         A room exclusively dedicated for the use of the E-Cell.

Materials for activities:

·         Poster board

·         Markers

·         Glue

·         Scissors

·         Other supplies as needed…

Library materials:

• See list of recommended reading materials on reverse side of sheet.

Recommended Reading Materials for E-Cell Library:

*Highlighted book titles indicate books, which are compulsory for all E-Cells.

 Readings on Entrepreneurship

·         Billions of Entrepreneurs by Tarun Khanna. Penguin Viking

·         Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins & Jerry I Porras. HarperBusiness

·         Everyday Entrepreneurs by Bhargava Aruna. Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd

·         Go Kiss The World: Life Lessons For The Young Professional by Subroto Bagch. Penguin Portfolio 

·         The High-performance Entrepreneur: Golden Rules For Success In Today`s World by Subroto Bagch. Penguin Book India

·         Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker. Harper Paperbacks

·         Making Breakthrough Innovation Happen by Porus Munshi. Collins Business

·         Management and Entrepreneurship by Ramesh K.Burbure. Rohan Publishers

·         New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21^st Century by Jeffry A. Timmons & Stephen Spinnelli. Mcgraw-hill Professional

·         The Professional by Subroto Bagch. Penguin Portfolio 

·         Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal. IIM Ahmedabad CIIE.

·         The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner. MIT Press

Readings on Leadership

·         Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins. Harperbusiness

·         Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading by Martin Linsky and Ronald A. Heifetz. Harvard Business School Press

Readings on Social Entrepreneurship:

·         Creating Space in The Market- Social Entrerprise Stories in Asia by Marie Lisa M. Decanay. Asian Institute of Management & Conference of Asian Foundations and Organizations.

·         Enterprising Nonprofits by by George Dees, Jed Emerson & Peter Economy. Wiley

·         How to Change the World-Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas by David Bornstein. Oxford University Press

·         Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail by Paul Polak. Berrett-Koehler Publishers

·         Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs by George Dees, Jed Emerson & Peter Economy. Wiley

·         The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits by C.K. Prahlad. Wharton School Publishing

General Readings:

·         Cases in Rural Marketing by CSG Krishnamacharyulu & Lalita Ramakrishnan. Pearson Education

Fair Trade for All by Joseph E. Stiglitz & Andrew Charlton. Oxford