Stories - Research and Impact

Building on a strong expertise of social business and innovation, Yunus Social Business harnesses the power of business to fight against poverty and the climate crisis. Convinced that tackling global issues should be addressed from two angles, the social and the business one, David Berners, Director Product Strategy and Investor Relations, tells us about how the […]

Partnering with the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), Effective Altruism France is organizing a publicly accessible conference and round table on May 23rd in Paris named “What Ethics, Action and Measurements to do the most good”. Guillaume Vorreux, the Director of Effective Altruism France, shared insights into what is effective altruism, and how […]

Introduction Faced with the unprecedented internal and external challenges facing organisations in the humanitarian and social sector, the French Red Cross Foundation is proposing an innovative approach: using research to learn, adapt and support vulnerable people during and between crises. The Foundation, which celebrated 10 years of commitment to humanitarian and social research last October, […]

Red Social Innovation team meets Navi Radjou. An innovation thinker who grew up in Pondicherry, in India. French on his father’s side, an officer in the French Navy, he left India to study business computing at École Centrale de Paris, in France, focusing his research on Open Information Systems and frugal innovation. “For decades, ingenious […]