Institute for Innovation and
Social Entrepreneurship
Our vision
"Social entrepreneurship is an effective and responsible way of tackling societal needs which neither public services nor market logic can fully satisfy. Social entrepreneurship works for the benefit of individuals and the common good, in the context of sustainable development, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Social entrepreneurs drive innovation and have a positive impact on public authorities and private profit-based organisations, enabling them to generate systemic change". Thierry Sibieude, and the team at the Institute for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (IIES)
Students on the "Social Enterprise General Management" diploma programme and pupils of the Social Entrepreneurship Chair are currently on a field trip in respectively Montreal and Boston.
On the 23rd January, ESSEC welcomed the latest intake of groups for the "A grande école: Why not me?" and the POLLEN programme, year groups given over to the ESSEC during an afternoon welcome and exchange session. (learn more) .
News
Happy birthday to one year old ESSEC-IIES !
ESSEC – IIES was launched on February 1 and 2, 2010.
To get further information on the launch event, please click here.
Many events have been carried on over the first months of year 2011.
the launch of the new class POLLEN and PQPM for 2011on January 22: the event gathered 800 people at ESSEC Business School
the launch of the Philanthropy Chair on January 27
the GSVC final French speaking projects selection on February 1,
two conferences around BoP (Base of the Pyramid) on February 7 and 8 with keynote speech from Stuart L. Hart, invited by ESSEC - IIES :
"BoP Protocol 2.0" Conference organized with IMS (Entreprendre pour la Cité) in partnership with YouPhil (newsletter by clicking here) and hosted by Caisse d'Epargne Ile-de-France
“ Sustainability and Impact challenges at the Base of the Pyramid”, research workshop organized in partnership with Ecole Polytechnique and HEC and hosted by Macif
