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State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE by Vikram Gandhi... More

"When Sonya Park, Senior Relationship Manager at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), thought about the last six months, she felt a sense of pride. On March 8, 2016 (Women’s Day), SSGA had launched the SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (Ticker: SHE), one of the first of its kind. SHE was based on a pr... More

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It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K. company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally-friendly process. The end product loo... More

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At the end of 2017, Morgan Stanley's firm performance - the strongest since the financial crisis - is linked to the overall success of its corporate strategy set out in 2015. Following several years of development and integration of a sustainability strategy in sync with overall firm strategy, the c... More

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In January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), was debating whether to terminate coverage of John Deere, one of its 47 portfolio companies. Generation believed that the type of mechanized agriculture enabled by John Deere's products was a vital tool for i... More

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In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies' corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit an investment in Hyzon Motors, a start-up supplier of hydrogen-powered trucks. TEV had invested $4 million in Hyzon, which had gone public in July 202... More

The Piramal Foundation was launched by diversfied Indian conglomerate, the Piramal Group, to improve the healthcare services and quality of education of India's economically and socially disadvantaged. The foundation operates under three verticals-'Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership' (PFEL)... More

Jana Partners, a well-known "activist" hedge fund has announced the launch of a new fund Jana Impact. The basic premise is that the fund will be able to generate superior returns by using Jana's activist approach with companies that are underperforming on ESG metrics. The case examines the history o... More

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Background Note: Introduction to Investing for Impact by Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme... More

Goldman Sachs acquired Imprint Capital Advisors, a small firm that specialized in advising clients on environmental/social/governance (ESG) and impact investments. The founders sold Imprint with the belief that joining a global financial firm would help to scale impact investing, if not bring it int... More

Background Note: Introduction to Investing for Impact by Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme - Finance... More

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Case - This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons' motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing, as well as BHI's approach... More

After much internal debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist them in developing and implementin... More

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After much internal debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist them in developing and implementin... More

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SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices.... More