Socially responsible investing that produces both financial and social returns (more)
With looming global crises, scholars now more than ever must connect finance to its role in achieving social and environmental goals. Here are five ways they can step up their teaching and research.
Without clearer insight into the financial benefits of corporate sustainability efforts, they may never be scaled up in the face of climate change, COVID-19, inequality, and many other perceived or real challenges to a company's bottom line. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
Impact investors pass on enterprises with potential because the deals are too small to justify the effort. A new model works through intermediaries to get entrepreneurs the capital they need.
Philanthropy must hire outside the box, write the first check, and take unsolicited applications.
Investors and policy makers who want to advance impact investing in Europe need to account for the field's different levels of maturity in national, subnational, and municipal markets. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
A better understanding of the roles that foundations have played in the development of impact investing can shed light on the problems that arise when philanthropy turns to the private sector to help with achieving a greater good. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
Impact investing, with its goal of delivering both financial value and social benefits, is particularly vulnerable to cognitive biases. Here are a few ways to overcome them. Part of the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
Six leading members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium discuss trends, predictions, foibles, and tensions related to the rapidly growing field their group has been focused upon for the past four years. The first article in the Impact Investing Today and Tomorrow in-depth series.
A consortium of more than 190 professors focused on impact investing share new insights into the rapidly changing field at a critical juncture in its development.
The Impact Frontiers Collaboration developed four steps to help investors integrate impact with financial analysis in their decision-making. It could change the way investors around the world allocate capital to achieve financial, social, and environmental goals.
