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As well as driving new insights, the Hoffmann Institute supports learning on sustainability at INSEAD and beyond. Activities in 2020/2021 included a collaboration with the MBA Programme on its Master Strategist Day (see the Degree Programmes section of this report for more details). The two intensive events enabled students to apply what they had learned about strategy to real-life, non-profit organisations. Another collaboration with MBA and Career Development Centre colleagues was the INSEAD Summer Start-up Tour (SSUP!). The two teams sponsored by the Institute focused on using technology to make fashion and food systems more sustainable.
Open to all Degree Programme students is the Hoffmann Institute €5,000 Social Impact Prize in the INSEAD Venture Competition. The winner in June 2021 was “Lulu”, a joint MBA-GEMBA team, which is using AI, integrated into assistive technology, to transform the lives of people with communication disabilities.
Learning is made available to the entire world through the range of online conversations hosted by the Hoffmann Institute, to which 13,000+ participants were welcomed over the course of 2020/2021. Speakers at the events included leaders such as Mark Carney, Finance Adviser to the Prime Minister for COP 26 and UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance; Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme; Hubert Sagniéres MBA’86J, Executive Vice-Chairman of Essilor-Luxottica and campaigner for improving lives by improving sight; and Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation.