(Outlet: World Economic Forum) Impact investing focuses on creating positive impacts instead of merely avoiding social or environmental harm. But it can be difficult to measure, leaving business leaders unsure about how to implement it and whether it’s having any real effect. Recent academic research highlights the benefits of impact measurement and shows how managers should track impact investing efforts.…Read More
A curated collection of recent significant publications in the field of impact investing, assembled by the Wharton Impact Investing Research Lab. …Read More
(Outlet: Stanford Social Innovation Review) Striving for value-adding impact means demanding additionality. There is a presumption that impact investors are shouldering unique burdens to achieve impact, but is this true? To answer this question, Michael Brown, Head of Research at the ESG Initiative, and Wharton Professor of Management Katherine Klein, in collaboration with other members of the Impact Finance Research Consortium, administered a rich, multifaceted survey to over 200 impact fund managers across the globe (particularly in private equity and venture capital).…Read More
(Outlet: Wharton Magazine) Alas, disputes, disagreements, and discord are parts of human nature (and that seems to go double for the nature of business). But research into a variety of scenarios, from interpersonal tension to geopolitical friction, offers hope for a more successful path forward. Here, five Wharton faculty share insights about conflict in its many forms and how to navigate it, resolve it, reframe it, or even avoid it entirely, for better results.…Read More
(Outlet: The People Space) A recent paper argues there is no statistically strong relationship between diversity, equity and inclusion and better financial performance. Does this lessen the business case for investing in DEI or should the case instead rest on a cultural and moral imperative rather than profit?…Read More
(Outlet: Forbes Online) After the first calendar year of outflows from US sustainable funds in 2023, the time has come for investors to consider rational sustainability as a middle ground between abandoning and continuing with ESG investing.…Read More
(Outlet: ImpactAlpha) Michael Brown, Head of Research at the ESG Initiative, discusses the Impact Finance Research Consortium’s recent report on catalytic capital in impact investing.…Read More
The Impact Finance Research Consortium (IFRC) has released a detailed report shedding new light on the features and applications of catalytic capital, investments bearing a high level of risk or accepting lower returns to stimulate positive social and environmental outcomes that would likely not be possible otherwise.…Read More
Wharton graduate Suzanne Biegel is a global leader in gender-smart investing who has influenced billions of dollars in capital. Biegel, 60, was recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and has been candid about her health. She said her illness has brought even sharper focus to her lifelong mission of gender equality and solutions to the climate crisis. This year, she and her husband, Daniel Maskit, invested $1 million to launch an endowment toward those goals. Biegel, a New Yorker who currently lives in London and has dual citizenship, spoke by phone to a reporter for the Wharton School about her career, her association with the school, and what she hopes will be a lasting legacy of change.…Read More
This March, the ESG Initiative celebrates International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Meet the women trailblazing the future of ESG, engage with our leading gender lens investing research, learn about the projects we support by and for women, and more.…Read More
