Impact Community
What is the Impact Community?
The Impact Community is a vibrant network of students, practitioners, professors, and researchers who leverage their business and financial acumen to maximize societal impact. The network is active in areas such as social entrepreneurship, impact investing, diversity, and inclusion.
What do we offer?
Competitions and challenges
International competitions with other universities (such as the Hult Prize)
Challenges for Esade students (such as the MSc social financing challenge; the SINGA BBA program)
Entrepreneurial support
Mentoring sessions and connections with the ecosystem
Project collaboration
In-class projects
Final degree projects (in-company projects, theses, business plans)
Career opportunities (internships and full-time jobs)
Events
Presentations and debates organized on the Esade Campus (such as career events)
Esade ecosystem events
Social Impact Lab
The Esade Center for Social Impact manages the Social Impact Lab, a specialized track for MBA students who wish to engage with the social impact field.
The Social Impact Lab offers trainings, events, activities, and mentorship to develop and guide future social impact leaders in collaboration with other Esade areas (such as careers), and recognizes students who successfully complete their lab training by awarding them a certificate.
Some of the activities undertaken within the Social Impact Lab are also open to the Impact Community in general, while others are specifically for these students.
Do you want to engage with us?
Students
- Receive training: attend our events
- Get hands-on experience: competitions, challenges, and projects
- Be mentored while starting your social enterprise
- Seek guidance on how to start a career in these fields
- Propose new ideas
- Promote our community
Individual experts
- Attend/speak at one of our events
- Mentor students
- Sit on a panel of judges for one of our competitions
- Promote our community
Organizations
Corporations, NGOs, multilateral organizations, foundations, impact investment funds, financial institutions, family offices, and public administrations
- Propose projects, internships, and full-time jobs
- Commission consulting projects
- Co-organize events
- Sponsor and promote our community