3. A program launched in 2007:
MBA & graduate students with strong business
experience
Interest in working with Ashoka Fellows or
Ashoka Staff to advance HVC around the world
Business plans, financing, research, marketing,
and fundraising strategies to scale social
business innovations
5. Commitment
Full-time for a minimum of 10
weeks from June - August
Requirements
• Graduate and Business School students who have completed at
least one year of studies
• Proficiency in the language of the host country
• Applicants encouraged to apply before end of February
Current Opportunities
Work with an Ashoka Fellow or with Ashoka FEC staff in
scaling HVCs. Locations available in Colombia, Brazil,
Mexico and India
7. Interns from the following business/graduate schools:
Stanford, Yale, Harvard University, Wharton,
University of Chicago Booth, Dartmouth,
University of California at Berkeley Haas and
several others
8. In previous years, HVC interns have:
Location Overview Scope Student
Colombia • In 2006, Colombian Fellow • Designed replication Wharton
Haidy Duque entered in a strategy to expand
partnership with leading tile distribution of low cost
manufacturing company high quality tiles to new
Colceramica to develop low- cities
price, high quality tiles for • Searched for innovations to
low-income markets. improve the communities
Together, they created a new quality of life
model for sales and • Designed strategy for
promotion that brought a search and selection of
multi-million dollar business new CSOs acting as sales
and generated over 256 new agents
jobs for women who provided
better quality of life for
consumers living in low-
income communities.
[ Placement: Worked with Ashoka Fellow ]
9. In previous years, HVC interns have:
Location Overview Scope Student
India • Muthu Velayutham a • Review business plans from Cornell
serial entrepreneur, BP on distribution channel
entered a partnership and biomass plants to RE-
with British Petroleum to NEGOTIATE the agreement
distribute biomass stoves terms. This required strong
to rural populations in financial/business planning
Tamul Nadu, and to and negotiation skills
develop a new market.
[ Placement: Worked with Ashoka Fellow ]
10. In previous years, HVC interns have:
Location Overview Scope Student
Brazil • In 2007 Ashoka launched • Expand our Housing pilot Darmouth
a one-stop shop housing work in Brazil by catalyzing /Tuck
service center in Brazil. a partnership between a
As part of its new housing microfinance bank & a local
model re-design in 2009 CSO
the team required support • Wrote a case study of “how-
for engaging new tos” for implementing this
financial institutions and type of partnership
other relevant partners
for the scaling up stage.
[ Placement: Worked with Ashoka Staff ]
12. Brokering services
Adding value to our Fellows and
future world business leaders
Advancing Hybrid Value Chains (HVC)
Increasing students knowledge and
application of hands-on HVCs
Ashoka Recruiting
Supports our global recruiting efforts for FT
positions
14. “The summer program definitely helped me decide to be a membe
Ashoka. Creating change side-by-side with another social
entrepreneur propels your change-making spirit in a matter of day
Linda Peia, 2007 intern and now FEC Staff member in Brazil
16. “I had an amazing summer in India. Seriously, it was the
best time at work I've had ever. Thank you for your
patience and for your help in setting this up”.
John S. Kim, Harvard Business School 2008
17. Sample of 2009 intern experiences
Aaron Mihaly, Brazil
•Launched a Housing pilot in Brazil by catalyzing a
partnership between a microfinance bank & a local CSO
•Wrote a case study of “how-tos” for implementing this
type of partnership
Shijie (SJ) Lu, India
•Worked with local CSO (Saath) to create a proposal for
an Incremental Housing Hybrid Value Chain in Ahmedabad
•Developed a Cleanliness Campaign to launch
partnership in 5 slums
18. Sample of 2009 intern experiences
• Egypt: Analyzed the low income housing market in
Eygpt in preparation for Ashoka's launch of a
Hybrid Value Chain pilot project.