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The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital
By: Daniel Green and Benjamin N. Roth
Portfolio allocation decisions increasingly incorporate social values. We develop a tractable framework to study how competition between investors to own socially valuable assets affects social welfare. Relative to the most common social-investing strategies, we... View Details
Keywords: Socially Responsible Investing; Investment Portfolio; Welfare; Social Issues; Investment Return
Green, Daniel, and Benjamin N. Roth. "The Allocation of Socially Responsible Capital." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Guiding social impact for foundations and investors
Courtney Moyer (MBA 2008) provides guidance to family foundations and instiutional investors to leverage their assets for the greatest social impact. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- News
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
- October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight countries, was acquired by The Rise Fund, one of the world’s largest private social impact investing funds, and by FS... View Details
Keywords: Investing; Investing For Impact; Ecotourism; COVID-19; Equity Financing; Strategy Formulation; Profitability; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Conservation Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility; Investment; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Financing and Loans; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Pandemics; Tourism Industry; Africa; Rwanda; Angola
Austin, James E., Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard. "Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 321-020, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
is a Partner at ABRY, and Gerardo Espinoza (MBA 1990) is the Executive Director of LEAF. Scaling the Model We are excited for this course to be the beginning of a long and productive partnership between the HBS View Details
- 17 Jan 2013
- News
Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital
- 10 Sep 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations
- Web
Courses & Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Courses & Case Studies Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi teach courses at Harvard Business School on impact investing and sustainable finance. The case list below highlights case materials used in various courses including Sustainable... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry
By: S. M. Datar, M. J. Epstein and K. Yuthas
Datar, S. M., M. J. Epstein, and K. Yuthas. "Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry." In Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking, edited by Paul N. Bloom and Edward Skloot. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- 22 Jun 2011
- News
Measurement: Tracking social impact catches up with resource issues
- July 2015
- Article
The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts' Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics
By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell-side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost, due to the prevalence of an agency logic, they produce... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Analysts; Investment Recommendations; Sustainability; Institutional Logics; Environment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Corporate Governance; United States
Ioannou, Ioannis, and George Serafeim. "The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Investment Recommendations: Analysts' Perceptions and Shifting Institutional Logics." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 7 (July 2015): 1053–1081.
- 04 Jan 2019
- News
How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals
- 2022
- Working Paper
Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana
By: Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth and Christopher Udry
We study the impact of mobile money transfers to a representative sample of low-income
Ghanaians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers
affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once disbursed,... View Details
Karlan, Dean, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth, and Christopher Udry. "Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-010, July 2022.
- Summer 2011
- Article
Mission, Margin, Mandate: The Many Paths to Scale for Impact Investees
By: Brian Trelstad and Robert Katz
Trelstad, Brian, and Robert Katz. "Mission, Margin, Mandate: The Many Paths to Scale for Impact Investees." Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 41–53.
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Rising Leaders for Social Impact Forum | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
The Rising Leaders Forum is HBS’s premier offering for social impact focused students. Through carefully tailored content and small peer group discussion, our highest potential change leaders are engaged in... View Details
- Web
Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
access to capital and work to understand whether and how small investments might help these businesses grow. The course primarily involves teams of 4-5 students conducting investment diligence on small businesses who are looking for flexible capital to View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
companies, that's too simple because it ignores the cost on the firms you’re supporting,” says Roth, author of the new working paper Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship. Decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- January 4, 2019
- Article
How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals
By: Marya L. Besharov, Wendy K. Smith and Michael Tushman
It’s notoriously difficult for a business to manage two separate-but-equal goals—making money and creating social value at the same time, for example, or managing an existing business at the same time that you invent a new one. Most attempts at managing these... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Decision Making
Besharov, Marya L., Wendy K. Smith, and Michael Tushman. "How Companies Can Balance Social Impact and Financial Goals." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 4, 2019).