Faculty & Research

In November 2016, HEC Paris launched an ambitious initiative: the Movement for Social*Business Impact (MS*BI) 

This movement aims at contributing to a more inclusive economy, where businesses seek to maximize their social impact together with their economic performance.

The Movement for Social*Business Impact is a continuation of the HEC Paris Social Business/Enterprise and Poverty Chair, launched and funded by Danone, Schneider Electric, and Renault in 2008. co-chaired by 2006 Peace Nobel Prize Professor Muhammad Yunus and Martin Hirsch, former High Commissioner for Active Solidarity against Poverty in France, and currently Head of the Greater Paris University Hospitals. The Chair in turn supported the creation of the Action-Tank Social & Business, designed to incubate inclusive business models fighting poverty in France. Since 2010, the Action-Tank has helped develop and implement innovative poverty alleviation projects, bringing together companies, NGOs, public and academic authorities.

MS*BI focuses on four key actions :

• This movement aims at contributing to a more inclusive economy, where businesses seek to maximize their social impact together with their economic performance.
• Catalyzing world-class research on social business by building on partnerships with the best international academic teams.
• Strengthening and broadening teaching opportunities focused on training a new generation of managers.
• Accelerating the deployment and scaling up of social business projects incubated in France.
• Providing institutional resources to develop international social business incubation models, which offer essential goods and services to the poorest populations.