Net Impact Week: Inspiring Growth and Impact - a week dedicated to exploring and challenging social impact's role in the business context. This week is from October 26 - 31 with 12+ events (workshops, lunch and learns, student panels, community service, and social).

The goal of these dinner discussions is to in a small group setting be able to get to know other like minded classmates as well as discuss and debate a social impact topic. This specific discussion will be focused on the social enterprise space, and students will be asked to read 1-2 articles in preparation.

The microfinance delusion: Who really wins? (Guardian.co.uk, Jun 10th) and The Anti-Poverty Experiment (Wall Street Journal, Sep 30th)

Discussion Questions:
The Anti-Poverty Experiment Questions
1. Is research in behavioral psychology an appropriate method?
2. Thoughts on leveraging people’s affinity towards gambling?
3. Is this randomista movement sustainable (and scalable) long-term? Why/why not?

The Microfinance Delusion
1. This article provides a perspective saying microfinance doesn’t work and is making the situation worse, do you agree/disagree?
2. How do you feel about the direct cash transfer idea discussed in the article?
3. How do you think phone banking plays a role in all of this?