Social Impact Project
Broaden your influence
The Social Impact Project is a five-week project for both Master and Full-time MBA students. It offers students the opportunity to serve as an economic or management consultant for an organization with specific social impact objectives.
Key Facts
Profile
- Students act as an economic or management consultant for an organization with specific social objectives
- Integral part of the ESMT Master in Global Management curriculum
- Optional for Full-time MBA students during their summer term
Highlights
- Students get to apply management theory to a real problem, including fieldwork, research, or project management;
- Find solutions to that problem, and if possible during the project timeline, help to implement the solutions;
- Directly help society as a whole – this is not a project to maximize profit, but a project to maximize the welfare or satisfaction of stakeholders that the client organization serves
Target organizations
- A project with the CSR department in a for-profit company;
- An NGO;
- A local non-profit organization;
- A social entrepreneurship venture;
- A company launching a new product or service that serves the poorest members of society (microfinance, etc.);
