Our Partners

Ashoka

Ashoka is the largest global network of social innovators. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 3,600 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows – men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Hystra and its clients benefit from a privileged access to the insights and solutions of Ashoka's network of social entrepreneurs, while Ashoka can gain access to the most innovative corporations. Hystra and Ashoka also partnered with HEC Paris, the leading French business school, to create an Executive Education program on inclusive business and value creation, and have also joined forces to support social entrepreneurship in Latin America in collaboration with the Swiss Development Corporation.

GRET

GRET is an international development NGO, founded in 1976 under French law. Their mission is to provide durable and innovative answers to the challenges of poverty and inequalities. GRET works across a large spectrum of fields from water and sanitation to natural resource and energy. Its 702 professionals work on 190 projects per year in 26 countries.

BopInc

BopInc is a Dutch non-profit foundation that accelerates the impact of market-driven innovative welfare strategies in low-wage markets, the ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BoP). The BoP is a demographic term that covers the approximately 4,5 billion people who have to live on less than US $ 8 per day. Inclusive business refers to commercially and socially viable business models which include the people in the BoP as consumers, producers and entrepreneurs in the supply chain. To help reduce extreme poverty and to improve economic development at BoP communities, we develop new initiatives in the private sector and learning & capacity development facilities.

Practical Action

Practical Action is an international development organisation that puts ingenious ideas to work so people in poverty can change their world. It helps people find solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems, including challenges made worse by climate change and gender inequality. Practical Action works with communities to develop ingenious, lasting and locally owned solutions for agriculture, water and waste management, climate resilience and clean energy. And it shares what works with others, so answers that start small can grow big.

BopInc, Practical Action and Hystra have formed a consortium to develop the Global Distributors Collective (GDC), a collective of last mile distributor members around the world that reach millions of unserved consumers with life-changing products, like solar lanterns and water filters. The GDC provides a collective voice for distributors to ensure their voice is heard; drives research and innovation across the sector; facilitates the exchange of information, insight and expertise; and provides critical services that leverage economies of scale.

The HEC Paris Society & Organizations Center

The HEC Paris Society & Organizations (S&O) Center is an interdisciplinary center at HEC Paris whose members research and teach about the contemporary challenges that organizations face and how these organizations mold society. Its three pillars of research, education, and action give rise to the Center's motto: Think, Teach, Act for an Inclusive and Sustainable World. The S&O center focuses primarily on four issues: Addressing challenges of the XXIst century capitalism; Building inclusive business models; Tackling the ecological transition and Developing a purposeful leadership. S&O in figures: 60 research professors, 50 courses delivered in 4 programs (Grande Ecole Master in Management, MSc, MBA and Executive Education) and 1000 students trained per year.