"Setting up the Aasha Initiative I realised just how much LBS and its community has to offer."
Julia Metzner
MiM2018
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Use our expertise and resources to realise the powerful potential of business to address the world’s most pressing social, environmental and economic challenges.
Build social impact into your studies:
Join our Social Impact Club and Impact Consulting Club:
Attend the Social Impact Club Conference and take part in Social Impact Week:
Join teams of students from other London Business School degree programmes:
Push your entrepreneurial spark to the limit or test your mettle as a potential impact
investor by entering one of the challenging international business school competitions we
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“Social impact is how organisations, businesses or individuals’ actions affect the surrounding community. LBS students achieve this through a broad range of careers, using their skills to make significant positive change to communities both locally and internationally. Our top talent drives real impact. We support a range of organisations, including for-profit businesses and their CSR teams and foundations, Certified B corporations, government organisations, charities and NGOs.”
Advance social, environmental and economic goals. Many core LBS social impact activities are delivered by our students, for our students.
Theory: Social entrepreneurship
Learning method: Practice consultancy - implementation
Skills developed: Strategy and implementation challenges of delivering poverty alleviation
Theory: Governance; strategy
Learning method: Through practice
Skills developed: Governance; strategic challenges faced by the not-for-profit sector
Theory: Innovation
Learning method: Competition
Skills developed: Technology solutions to environmental challenges
Theory: Various
Learning method: Co-curricular
Skills developed: Breadth and depth on social impact topics
Theory: Various
Learning method: Knowledge - networking
Skills developed: Breadth and depth on social impact topics
Theory: Strategy
Learning method: Practice consultancy
Skills developed: Strategic, analytic and consulting skills and an understanding of social impact challenges
Theory: Social entrepreneurship
Learning method: Practice consultancy
Skills developed: Strategic, analytic and consulting skills and an understanding of social impact challenges
Theory: Impact investment
Learning method: Competition
Skills developed: Impact investing skills and knowledge; networking across business schools
Aasha Initiative is a social impact project in Bangalore where students work with social entrepreneurs for 6 months to alleviate poverty.
Julia Metzner and Patrick Plikat (MiM 2017) wanted to discover more about the social impact sector during their studies. Through the LBS network, the two connected with alumna and Head of Global Action on Poverty at Head Held High, Manisha Dahad (MBA97). Head Held High is an accelerator programme for social entrepreneurs and activists in India.
With the help of the Social Impact Hub, Julia and Patrick established the Aasha Initiative. This involved two groups of MiM students volunteering as consultants for an NGO or social entrepreneur for six months, 2 to 3 weeks of which was spent in Bangalore.
In 2017/18, our MiM students worked with and supported two separate organisations - Liter of Light and Estah.
Liter of Light is a global grassroots movement that works with local NGOs and other initiatives to provide remote and off-the-grid communities with low-cost solar lamps. The Aasha project supported Liter of Light over the course of the six months to:
Estah is a farming cooperative that empowers farmers to engage in natural food production and enables direct sale to end consumers. The Aasha Initiative supported Estah over the course of six months to:
Identify global challenges, apply insight and forge communities of learning and practice to implement large-scale and enduring change.
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