COURSE 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Session 3

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Certificate Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Course 1: Entrepreneurship

This course teaches the basics of entrepreneurship and enables the student to apply the tools in a real life setting through a combination of theoretical concepts and hands on training. Each session has two parts: one hour of theory and one hour of practice.

Instructor: Mouna Mahouachi

Consultant Mouna Mahouachi (1) will be teaching the Entrepreneurship course at Henry George. She is sharing her knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation processes since 2014. Ms. Mahouachi started her career at Credit Suisse where she worked on digital transformation projects in both Zurich and New York. There, she practiced intrapreneurship and launched a corporate innovation program called the Creative Lab. She holds a Master’s degree from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) and has studied the Business Model Canvas at HEC Lausanne with its creator, Alexander Osterwalder. She is also an alumni of the Swiss CTI Entrepreneurship Course “Venture Challenge” and was mentored by Swiss entrepreneur and innovator Nadine Reichenthal. Mouna Mahouachi is now consulting on technology projects, including blockchain, Cloud and HPC and she is the author of an upcoming book about decentralized economies. (1) pronounced: [Moo-na Ma-wa-shee]

Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dates: Tuesdays: 5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25
Course is 5 sessions and has a $5 registration fee. Payment or proof of payment must be provided at first session.

Topics

  • Elevator Pitch and Value Proposition | Form Project Teams
    • The Elevator Pitch
    • Value Proposition
    • Problem Statement
    • Customer Segment
    • Hands-on: Pitch Team Ventures, Form Project Teams
    • Handout: Principles of Pitching, Defining a value proposition, Defining my problem statement, Project Management Tools (Agile)
  • MVP and Value Proposition Canvas | Customer Validation
    • MVP and the Value Proposition Canvas
    • Customer Validation and Pivoting
    • Hands-on: Define teams’ MVP, Customer Validation
    • Handout: Value Proposition Canvas, Theory and tools of MVP and Customer Validation
  • Business Model Part I | Business Model Canvas
    • Business Model Part I (VP, Customer Segments, CR, Marketing Channels, Revenue)
    • Business Plan basics
    • Selected Topics: Design Thinking, Accounting, PR & Marketing: Social Media Marketing, Thought Leadership, PR & Communication
    • Hands-on: Work on ventures’ business model part I
    • Handout: Business Model Canvas, Business Plan Template
  • Business Model Part II | Business Model Canvas
    • Business Model Part II (Partners, Key resources, Key Activities, Costs)
    • Hands-on: Work on ventures’ business model part II | Practice Final Presentations
  • Course Summary | Final Presentations
    • Course summary
    • Final Presentations

LABOR AND FREE TRADE – COURSE PART 1
Session 2

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Labor and Free Trade – Contextualizing Henry George’s Work on Tariffs

Henry George subtitled his *Protection or Free Trade* with “Special Regard to the Interests of Labor.” Yet this book and George’s stance on free trade alienated both the unions and the Irish immigrant workers who had been his core supporters. Today, the book is popular with conservatives and neolibertarians as a defense of conventional free-trade policies.

In this course, Dan Sullivan argues that George’s message was not wrong, but that its presentation was certainly not the best way to reach labor. This is illustrated by his writing 18 chapters promoting conventional free-trade ideas before addressing the actual concerns of labor, and his failure to define what he was actually advocating until chapter 26, “True Free Trade.”

The course begins by presenting the background context and leads a discussion of the book beginning with Chapter 26, before going through all the other chapters from 19 onward to clearly establish labor’s interests. Only after grounding the reader in labor’s real interests shall we go back and examine the first 18 chapters.

Note: This is a two-part course of five sessions each to be offered online through Zoom Videoconferencing. Attendees could connect via computer or portable devices (IOS, Android or Windows). We recommend downloading and testing the application prior to the course starting date.

THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE

Dates: Saturdays – 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22, 6/29 (Part I)

9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28, 10/5 (Part II)

Time: 12:00 PM, ET

Instructor: Dan Sullivan, Executive Director of Saving Communities, President of the Council of Georgist Organizations

How to join the event online:

To join Zoom Meeting, download Zoom and click the link below. You may also use your web browser. Alternatively you can participate via telephone but the application is recommended.

https://zoom.us/j/963999585
This event will be recorded. By participating in this event you are consenting to being recorded.

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+19292056099,,7669485877# US (New York)
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Meeting ID: 766 948 5877

Please feel free to call us a 212 889 8020 if you need help. Thank you !

References

Those who are interested in getting ahead of the discussion can look at the following links:

http://www.savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years08.html#cure-all

Terence Powderly asks to focus on land value tax and take on protectionism only after the land tax victory is won. This link takes the reader to that specific passage in a chapter of is book entirely dedicated to George’s other proposals.

https://vimeo.com/48893598

Maria Mazzenga and Dan Sullivan on the interactions between Henry George, Terence Powderly, Father Edward McGlynn and the Catholic Church. (video).

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1652#George_0448_620

Protection or Free Trade, chapter 26, “True Free Trade.”

COURSE 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Session 2

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Certificate Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Course 1: Entrepreneurship

This course teaches the basics of entrepreneurship and enables the student to apply the tools in a real life setting through a combination of theoretical concepts and hands on training. Each session has two parts: one hour of theory and one hour of practice.

Instructor: Mouna Mahouachi

Consultant Mouna Mahouachi (1) will be teaching the Entrepreneurship course at Henry George. She is sharing her knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation processes since 2014. Ms. Mahouachi started her career at Credit Suisse where she worked on digital transformation projects in both Zurich and New York. There, she practiced intrapreneurship and launched a corporate innovation program called the Creative Lab. She holds a Master’s degree from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) and has studied the Business Model Canvas at HEC Lausanne with its creator, Alexander Osterwalder. She is also an alumni of the Swiss CTI Entrepreneurship Course “Venture Challenge” and was mentored by Swiss entrepreneur and innovator Nadine Reichenthal. Mouna Mahouachi is now consulting on technology projects, including blockchain, Cloud and HPC and she is the author of an upcoming book about decentralized economies. (1) pronounced: [Moo-na Ma-wa-shee]

Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dates: Tuesdays: 5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25
Course is 5 sessions and has a $5 registration fee. Payment or proof of payment must be provided at first session.

Topics

  • Elevator Pitch and Value Proposition | Form Project Teams
    • The Elevator Pitch
    • Value Proposition
    • Problem Statement
    • Customer Segment
    • Hands-on: Pitch Team Ventures, Form Project Teams
    • Handout: Principles of Pitching, Defining a value proposition, Defining my problem statement, Project Management Tools (Agile)
  • MVP and Value Proposition Canvas | Customer Validation
    • MVP and the Value Proposition Canvas
    • Customer Validation and Pivoting
    • Hands-on: Define teams’ MVP, Customer Validation
    • Handout: Value Proposition Canvas, Theory and tools of MVP and Customer Validation
  • Business Model Part I | Business Model Canvas
    • Business Model Part I (VP, Customer Segments, CR, Marketing Channels, Revenue)
    • Business Plan basics
    • Selected Topics: Design Thinking, Accounting, PR & Marketing: Social Media Marketing, Thought Leadership, PR & Communication
    • Hands-on: Work on ventures’ business model part I
    • Handout: Business Model Canvas, Business Plan Template
  • Business Model Part II | Business Model Canvas
    • Business Model Part II (Partners, Key resources, Key Activities, Costs)
    • Hands-on: Work on ventures’ business model part II | Practice Final Presentations
  • Course Summary | Final Presentations
    • Course summary
    • Final Presentations

Nordic Capitalism – The Middle Way
Seminar

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Nordic Capitalism – The Middle Way

Highly regarded internationally as a successful functioning hybrid economic system, the Nordic model of capitalism emphasizes consensus, cooperation and pragmatism over ideology. In this interactive seminar, Michael Bucher reveals the significance, characteristics and historical context behind this model and ask whether it could work in America.

Date: Monday June 3rd, 2019
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Instructor: Michael Bucher

LABOR AND FREE TRADE – COURSE PART 1
Session 1

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Labor and Free Trade – Contextualizing Henry George’s Work on Tariffs

Henry George subtitled his *Protection or Free Trade* with “Special Regard to the Interests of Labor.” Yet this book and George’s stance on free trade alienated both the unions and the Irish immigrant workers who had been his core supporters. Today, the book is popular with conservatives and neolibertarians as a defense of conventional free-trade policies.

In this course, Dan Sullivan argues that George’s message was not wrong, but that its presentation was certainly not the best way to reach labor. This is illustrated by his writing 18 chapters promoting conventional free-trade ideas before addressing the actual concerns of labor, and his failure to define what he was actually advocating until chapter 26, “True Free Trade.”

The course begins by presenting the background context and leads a discussion of the book beginning with Chapter 26, before going through all the other chapters from 19 onward to clearly establish labor’s interests. Only after grounding the reader in labor’s real interests shall we go back and examine the first 18 chapters.

Note: This is a two-part course of five sessions each to be offered online through Zoom Videoconferencing. Attendees could connect via computer or portable devices (IOS, Android or Windows). We recommend downloading and testing the application prior to the course starting date.

THIS IS AN ONLINE COURSE

Dates: Saturdays – 6/1, 6/8, 6/15, 6/22, 6/29 (Part I)

9/7, 9/14, 9/21, 9/28, 10/5 (Part II)

Time: 12:00 PM, ET

Instructor: Dan Sullivan, Executive Director of Saving Communities, President of the Council of Georgist Organizations

How to join the event online:

To join Zoom Meeting, download Zoom and click the link below. You may also use your web browser. Alternatively you can participate via telephone but the application is recommended.


https://zoom.us/j/963999585
This event will be recorded. By participating in this event you are consenting to being recorded.

One tap mobile
+19292056099,,7669485877# US (New York)
+16699006833,,7669485877# US (San Jose)

Dial by your location
+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Meeting ID: 766 948 5877

Please feel free to call us a 212 889 8020 if you need help. Thank you !

References

Those who are interested in getting ahead of the discussion can look at the following links:

http://www.savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years08.html#cure-all

Terence Powderly asks to focus on land value tax and take on protectionism only after the land tax victory is won. This link takes the reader to that specific passage in a chapter of is book entirely dedicated to George’s other proposals.

https://vimeo.com/48893598

Maria Mazzenga and Dan Sullivan on the interactions between Henry George, Terence Powderly, Father Edward McGlynn and the Catholic Church. (video).

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1652#George_0448_620

Protection or Free Trade, chapter 26, “True Free Trade.”

COURSE 1 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Session 1

/in /by

Certificate Program in Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Course 1: Entrepreneurship

This course teaches the basics of entrepreneurship and enables the student to apply the tools in a real life setting through a combination of theoretical concepts and hands on training. Each session has two parts: one hour of theory and one hour of practice.

Instructor: Mouna Mahouachi

Consultant Mouna Mahouachi (1) will be teaching the Entrepreneurship course at Henry George. She is sharing her knowledge of entrepreneurship and innovation processes since 2014. Ms. Mahouachi started her career at Credit Suisse where she worked on digital transformation projects in both Zurich and New York. There, she practiced intrapreneurship and launched a corporate innovation program called the Creative Lab. She holds a Master’s degree from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) and has studied the Business Model Canvas at HEC Lausanne with its creator, Alexander Osterwalder. She is also an alumni of the Swiss CTI Entrepreneurship Course “Venture Challenge” and was mentored by Swiss entrepreneur and innovator Nadine Reichenthal. Mouna Mahouachi is now consulting on technology projects, including blockchain, Cloud and HPC and she is the author of an upcoming book about decentralized economies. (1) pronounced: [Moo-na Ma-wa-shee]

Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dates: Tuesdays: 5/28, 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25
Course is 5 sessions and has a $5 registration fee. Payment or proof of payment must be provided at first session.

Topics

  • Elevator Pitch and Value Proposition | Form Project Teams
    • The Elevator Pitch
    • Value Proposition
    • Problem Statement
    • Customer Segment
    • Hands-on: Pitch Team Ventures, Form Project Teams
    • Handout: Principles of Pitching, Defining a value proposition, Defining my problem statement, Project Management Tools (Agile)
  • MVP and Value Proposition Canvas | Customer Validation
    • MVP and the Value Proposition Canvas
    • Customer Validation and Pivoting
    • Hands-on: Define teams’ MVP, Customer Validation
    • Handout: Value Proposition Canvas, Theory and tools of MVP and Customer Validation
  • Business Model Part I | Business Model Canvas
    • Business Model Part I (VP, Customer Segments, CR, Marketing Channels, Revenue)
    • Business Plan basics
    • Selected Topics: Design Thinking, Accounting, PR & Marketing: Social Media Marketing, Thought Leadership, PR & Communication
    • Hands-on: Work on ventures’ business model part I
    • Handout: Business Model Canvas, Business Plan Template
  • Business Model Part II | Business Model Canvas
    • Business Model Part II (Partners, Key resources, Key Activities, Costs)
    • Hands-on: Work on ventures’ business model part II | Practice Final Presentations
  • Course Summary | Final Presentations
    • Course summary
    • Final Presentations

MEMORIAL DAY

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MEMORIAL DAY

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Session 5

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The-Political-Economy-of-Social-Problems2

In his “fighting” book, Social Problems published nearly a decade after Progress & Poverty, Henry George argued that the unequal distribution of wealth is the fundamental problem that defines and shapes all other social problems faced by modern societies. He saw in monopoly and, in particular land monopoly the driving force behind wealth inequality and economic injustice. This course will walk us through George’s framework and ask whether his diagnosis of the key social problem was accurate then and now, and most importantly, discuss whether his recipe for economic prosperity and social justice is still relevant today.

Instructor: Dr. Ibrahima Drame

Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dates: Mondays: 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20
Main text: H. George, Social Problems

Congestion Pricing is Coming to New York City – Is it fair? Will it Work?
Seminar

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Congestion Pricing is Coming to New York City – Is it fair? Will it Work?

The long-awaited and hard fought congestion pricing policy is here. Although the measure is going into effect in 2021, many are questioning its fairness while others are touting its prospects for ushering in a new era of urban sustainability. Join us for a lively discussion of the potential challenges facing the first experiment of its kind in the United States.

Our panelists include Bhairavi Desai from the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Dr. Jonas Shaende, Chief Economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, Dr. Marty Rowland of the Henry George School, and Ben Schulman, Director of The Newburgh Packet. The panel presentations will be followed by a community Q&A.

Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Date: Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Session 4

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The-Political-Economy-of-Social-Problems2

In his “fighting” book, Social Problems published nearly a decade after Progress & Poverty, Henry George argued that the unequal distribution of wealth is the fundamental problem that defines and shapes all other social problems faced by modern societies. He saw in monopoly and, in particular land monopoly the driving force behind wealth inequality and economic injustice. This course will walk us through George’s framework and ask whether his diagnosis of the key social problem was accurate then and now, and most importantly, discuss whether his recipe for economic prosperity and social justice is still relevant today.

Instructor: Dr. Ibrahima Drame

Location: 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Dates: Mondays: 4/22, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20
Main text: H. George, Social Problems