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Social Impact Hub

What does social impact mean to us? To have a profound impact on the way the world does business, and on the way business impacts the world.

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Empower yourself to make a positive difference

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:

  • Study social impact through your core curriculum
  • Spend a week immersed in the realities of what social impact means to business
    through your Global Experience. Apply your learning to support a real-world micro-
    entrepreneur and change lives through the Johannesburg GBE (MBA).
  • Use your London Project (Graduate Masters and MBA) to work on social impact challenges
  • Read our cutting edge research on social impact through our faculty, such as Ioannis
    Ioannou or the Wheeler Institute of Business and Development

Hear our students talking about what social impact means for them

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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.”

  • Be inspired. Develop strategies to tackle the issues that matter most. Learn how to promote progressive ecological and social agendas on a global scale.
  • Get your business on board: Wherever you work, whether it’s a corporate, tech firm, financial institution or multinational consultancy, you can raise awareness and align business goals to make a positive change.
  • Learn about the industries that focus solely on social impact: We’ll help you connect to companies focusing on renewable energy, the circular economy and impact investing, as well as showcasing how for-profit roles can have a greater impact.
  • Network with organisations where social impact is the main measure of success. The Hub and Careers Centre will help you gain the skills you need to find a role and succeed in this sector.
  • Become a social entrepreneur. Draw on the expertise of faculty, alumni and LBS institutes to start your own initiative or business.

Initiatives with impact


Advance social, environmental and economic goals. Many core LBS social impact activities are delivered by our students, for our students.

Our student-led initiatives

Social Impact case study

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.

"Setting up the Aasha Initiative I realised just how much LBS and its community has to offer."

Julia Metzner

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