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The Impact Investing course provides students with an overview of the entire spectrum of investing approaches used by impact investors. This is done through a combination of cases and lectures by the professor, and guest presentations by leading impact investors and thought leaders. The substantive areas covered include: (1) how investors and investment managers and advisors select and structure their impact investments; (2) the differing financial return and social impact return expectations of impact investors; and (3) the challenges and methodologies for measuring impact.
This block week course is designed around the different types of impact investments from the perspective of investors, and is composed of four modules:
- Responsible Investing – socially responsible investing (SRI) is designed to screen public equity investments of companies or sectors believed to be causing social harm.
- Sustainable Investing – also referred to as ESG investing, is designed to select public or private equity investments using fundamental analysis that incorporates environmental, social, and governance factors.
- Thematic Investing –private equity and venture capital investments designed to earn a market risk-adjusted return while also addressing a specific social or environmental problem.
- Impact First Investing – private investments designed primarily to address a social or environmental problem, with no expectation of achieving market returns.
- Topics on: Investing, Technology
- Case Description
Since ESG ratings are expected to become even more central in decision-making processes for investors, companies and other stakeholders, is there a case to be made for even stricter regulation of the sector?
- Topics on: ESG, Finance
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How can green bond issuances gain wider acceptance as a free market vehicle to support environmentally sustainable activities?
- Topics on: Impact, Investing, Strategy, Technology
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Is securitization worthwhile for the solar sector? How can securitization be applied more broadly to renewable energy projects to provide capital needed to support a rapidly growing market?
- Topics on: Economics, Impact, Investing, Strategy, Technology
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This case study examines the design and implementation of an Integrated Project Management System to achieve the ultimate goal of First Ore on Ship (FOOS) by November 30, 2014, by Paulo Castellari, CEO of the Anglo American subsidiary Iron Ore Brazil.
- Topics on: ESG
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A look at Amy Wilson’s efforts to direct ESG investing within the Glenmede Investment Firm credibly and effectively.
- Topics on: ESG
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This case study explores the efficacy of the Abraaj Group’s strategy in changing the K-Electric company’s direction, with the aim of transforming it into a sustainable, growth-oriented, private sector utility.
- Topics on: ESG
- Case Description
The Kerovka simulation is a highly innovative software tool that is used as part of an organised workshop, either in a classroom or in remote format, to deliver an intense experience that helps participants with a wide variety of experience levels to develop skills for dealing with challenges such as managing crisis scenarios, and leading responsibly & sustainably.
- Topics on: ESG, Investing
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A look at the efforts of Ben Allen, CEO of Parnassus, to invest in Wells Fargo while advancing the financial welfare of the firm’s investors and the ESG values so important to many of them and to the staff of the firm.
- Topics on: ESG
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A look into Engine No. 1’s efforts to combine a new ETF that both met a need in the market for active ownership and satisfied gatekeepers with a hedge fund that occasionally pursued activist campaigns needing the support of the Big Three to succeed.
- Topics on: ESG
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A look at the decisions Michelle Dunstan and Jeremy Taylor, co-managers of the Alliance Bernstein Global ESG Improvers Strategy, had to make in their effort to buy stocks they believed had the best chance to deliver excellent long-term financial results and improve their ESG performance.
- Topics on: ESG
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This case study examines the value and strategy of estimating the net present value of sustainability at Newmont’s Ahafo Mine in Ghana.
- Topics on: ESG
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This case study looks at the impact of Choppies, under the guidance of CEO Ramachandran (“Ram”) Ottapathu, on Botswana and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Topics on: ESG
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Method’s environmentally friendly cleaning products were rapidly gaining market share, both domestically and overseas.
- Topics on: Strategy
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- Topics on: Statistics, Strategy, Technology
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Unilever has successfully rolled out an initiative to sustainably source Lipton tea, and Unilever CEO Paul Polman is wondering if the company could apply the same concepts to its wider portfolio of products. The move has…
- Topics on: Impact, Strategy
- Case Description
Who is in the environmental movement?
- Topics on: Impact
- Case Description
The complex and fragmented agribusiness sector has been resistant to legislation surrounding greenhouse gas emissions and other climate change regulations.
- Topics on: Impact
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Jon-Mark Chappellet, Director of Operations at Clos Du Val Winery in Napa Valley, is developing a 50-year plan.
- Topics on: Impact
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Eric Ries, one of the most prominent entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, is launching the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), a new stock exchange for companies and investors that want to focus on long-term values and sustainable development rather than short-term profit gains.
- Topics on: Impact