IMD Annual Report 2021

55 Faculty and Research

Dean of EMBA and elea Professor of Social Innovation Vanina Farber

Highlights

Outreach As part of its efforts to encourage the IMD community to drive positive change, the center, through its Social Impact Recognition initiative, paid tribute to the social impact that six EMBA and MBA alumni have had in their professional careers. Three alumni launched the IMD Social Entrepreneurship community to galvanize and enhance work by alumni in the field. The center delivered seven webinars and conference presentations, including at the International Social Innovation Research Conference, covering topics such as investing in emerging markets and the role of female investors in social justice. The “Social Innovation: Mobilizing Private Capital for Impact” webinar series continued to resonate with an international audience. elea experts also collaborated with academic and industry peers in two research groups, the Swiss Lab for Sustainable Finance and the Gender Lens Initiative for Switzerland. The center also received an E4S grant to carry out research on blended finance.

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book chapters

academic articles

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cases

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white paper

popular media articles

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webinars and presentations

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