Update: Touching base with INSEAD

INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Program has a different audience and student body than the SSE and some of the other SE programs run through business schools.

ISEP attracts people who are usually already successful social entrepreneurs, many of them (up to about 50%) come to the program via organizations such as Unltd, Ashoka, Schwab and so forth. The students at INSEAD are operating at a wider, global scale rather than at a local level. 

A strong focus at ISEP is the notion of scaling up and replication of existing projects or businesses. By building stronger networks they want to learn what happens when, for example, you take a project that was launched in Brazil and try to replicate it in Kenya. Right now, they have 8 different pairings of SE replications, which will help answer some key questions about knowledge transfer and sustainability. 

ISEP graduates are giving back to the sector at a macro level: by leveraging partnerships, measuring impact, creating new business models, and establishing best practices. Networking is also extremely important.  ”When you have 50 people talking, you may end up with 50 good ideas. When you get 100 people sharing information, you’ll end up with 500 good ideas.”