Levi Lock's Social Entrepreneurship Assignments

For the case study I choose Manitoba Hydro, they are a Crown corporation monopoly that supplies electricity and natural gas to all of Manitoba.  For the template I made click the  link  to the Google slides and make a copy for yourself to edit.

Course Steps 1. First contact with Social Ecological Entrepreneurship Introduction to Basics, Goals and Examples 2. Laying the groundwork for a Social Ecological Business Identifying needs, areas of improvement, and planning 3. Starting the Entrepreneurship process Finances, Land, and Business Strategy 4. Starting the Business Raising funds, Hiring, Ownership

The first thing I thought would be a fun idea for the assignment would be designing a project for a space. I'm stuck. Designing things has always interested me, like building our rink or our deck. Being able to decide what could be the best option for a space is interesting. For our rink we had to decide, do we want to expand it closer to the trees? We didn't because the tree had berries on them which is a pain. Do we want boards all around or just make do with end boards? We decided to keep the end boards. These kind of decisions are small scale, but some thought was put into them. For a public space you have to think, what type of people hang out here? What is their age? What do they like to do? Are they sports fans? Food fans?

     It was late on a Friday night and rumors were swirling like a menacing Manitoba blizzard. Sure there had been trade requests but those were brushed aside and dismissed so as not to think about the inevitable. You try to sort through the clutter on the twitter machine to find out if these rumors are credible and sure enough the rumors have originated from reliable sources. These rumors predict that when you wake up the next morning your favorite Jet, Winnipeg's favorite Jet, will no longer be part of our team. The next morning you wake up hoping all of it was fake, but when you pick up your phone the news  "LAINE" and "TRADED" hits you like an avalanche. The news is hard to process but you know that hockey is a business and this is probably for the best. However, objective thinking is especially difficult with the overtime hattrick against the Leafs playing over and over again in your head. Once you come to grips with the news, a little excitement seeps into...