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      Hope Home: early childhood education for social change

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          Learning outcomes

          This case is to familiarize students with the peculiarities of social enterprises (SEs). They would be able to recognize that SEs are hybrid organizations that merge a social purpose with the managerial logics of business ventures. Because of this dual nature, social entrepreneurs need to balance their social aim and the financial viability of the project when analyzing different ways to grow the business, as well as understand and address internal tensions that arise because they have to deal with diverse stakeholders. At the end of the analysis, students would have clear that social and commercial ventures respond to different logics, and therefore, require different managerial models.

          Case overview/synopsis

          Andrea Meoño was the founder of Hope Home, a center for early childhood education in San José, Costa Rica. The goal of the center was to provide education and daily care to children of disadvantaged families, especially single mothers for whom it was a real challenge to maintain a permanent job to sustain their children, and at the same time, provide them with adequate care and attention. After five years of operating the center, Andrea had to figure out the best way to grow her business, ensuring financial sustainability while keeping true to her original purpose of helping vulnerable mothers by providing their children with excellent educational opportunities.

          Complexity academic level

          Master’s and Master of Business Administration students taking a course on social entrepreneurship.

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          Subject code

          CSS 3: Entrepreneurship

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          Journal
          Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies
          EEMCS
          Emerald
          2045-0621
          December 06 2019
          December 06 2019
          : 9
          : 3
          : 1-44
          Article
          10.1108/EEMCS-05-2019-0104
          db93d622-3cc5-469d-bf79-6faa962f7759
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