The Value of Informal Enterprise
Informal enterprise is expanding rapidly, raising questions about what we mean when we say “the” economy and how we can better engage with it.
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Slacktivism: A Serious Game to Play
The rise of mass participation in online protest campaigns is presenting firms and organizations with new challenges in terms of how to respond. A new game has the potential to increase awareness within organizations and help managers become social media savvy.
Remixing Microfinance
Microfinance has tended to grow by faithful replication of well-established models; it is now time to experiment with hybrid models that bring together the best features of each.
Managing Our Way to Economic Decline, Revisited
Businesses worldwide are putting themselves at risk if they don’t respond effectively to the story of climate change.
Sparking Impact Investing through GIIRS
The Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) has been created to change investor behavior and unlock sidelined investment capital.
Using the Right Tools
Impact investors must build consensus around standards and best practices.
Why IRIS?
The second in a four-part series on impact investing and the role of metrics.
Protecting and Monitoring Impact as an Investor: Part II
Tactics and tools for monitoring impact investments.
Protecting and Monitoring Impact as an Investor: Part I
Tactics for negotiating the terms of an impact investment.
Impact Investing’s Three Measurement Tools
IRIS, PULSE, and GIIRS may sound like alphabet soup, but a growing and dynamic industry needs all three measurement tools.