INSEAD

INSEAD Social Innovation Centre

Social innovation is the introduction of new business models and market-based mechanisms that deliver sustainable economic, environmental and social prosperity

Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship

The main theme of the Centre is “Building Businesses in a Global World”. Its vision is to make INSEAD the world’s leading business school for entrepreneurship by 2015.

INSEAD & TNT & World Food Programme
TNT & World Food Programme: not just award winning cases on private-non profit partnership, but also research that led to the creation of an executive programme for humanitarians

INDEVOR - Net Impact

An affiliate chapter of Net Impact, INDEVOR is one of the largest and most active student clubs at INSEAD focused on business-in-society issues and social impact.

Partnerships with other business schools
The school has multiple links with other business schools around the world, including health management initiatives with Vanderbilt and a close link with Wharton University and projects involving sustainable operations.

Supporting students' start-ups
There is a close link between the centre for Social Innovation and our entrepreneurship department for new student business start-ups 

RESPONSE project
RESPONSE research project has pioneered new ways to embed responsibility and social leadership into teaching/executive education (e.g. with Microsoft)

A Conceptual Framework for Social Entrepreneurship

What makes social entrepreneurship distinctive from commercial entrepreneurship or charity work?

Business Model Innovation

In a world with deep problems and scarce resources, business model innovation is the most powerful tool of social entrepreneurs.

The Challenges of Managing Social Businesses

Managing a social oriented business poses unique challenges that have not been adequately addressed in strategy and organization theory. One such issue is the need to balance multiple demands on the organization, in particular the balance between economic and social goals.

Collaboration with Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson: we have co-developed and delivered the European Health Leadership programme

INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship

The social entrepreneurship initiative is housed under both INSEAD’s Social Innovation Centre and the Rudolf and Valeria Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship.