Tag: socially responsible investing
Impact Investing: Creating Strong Returns While Bettering the World
January 28, 2019
Written by Isabella Martin, MDP Candidate, Class of 2019 Impact Investing is an increasingly hot topic in the finance world with the industry set to grow to around $500 billion in the next decade. With so many ubiquitous terms floating around…
Winners of the 2018 Moskowitz Research Prize
December 10, 2018
Winners: Abigail B. Sussman, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Samuel M. Hartzmark, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, for “Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Natural Experiment Examining Ranking and Fund…
A 29-year old’s take on the 29th Annual SRI Conference
November 21, 2018
Written by: Michelle Levinson, ERG/MPP ’19 In the aftermath of another round of divisive elections in the United States (and around the globe) many of us feel distraught about the ability and speed of our political systems to address urgent…
Business as Unusual: Reflections on the UN PRI Finance Roundup
October 21, 2018
Written by Katharine Hawthorne, CRB Student Advisory Board member and MBA ’20 candidate In September, the UN PRI in Person Conference took place in San Francisco, CA at the peak of the Global Climate Action Summit. One of the concluding…
Alumni Spotlight: Rob Kaplan on Finding (and Sticking to) a Career with Impact
September 27, 2018
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Winners of the 2018 Investment for Impact Research Prize
July 31, 2018
Winners: Christopher Geczy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Jessica S. Jeffers, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, David K. Musto, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,…
Measuring Sustainability That Matters
July 09, 2018
Written by Maxwell Kushner-Lenhoff, MBA ’18 and former CRB Fellow Greenwashing is a real problem these days. Some companies either promote efforts that are insignificant when compared with industry progress or tout accomplishments that are…
Embedding Values & Taking an Active Stance – Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund in 2018
May 21, 2018
Praised as ambitious and groundbreaking, the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund (HSRIF) is the first and largest student-led SRI fund within a leading business school. It offers our MBA students real-world experience in delivering both strong…
Divestment vs. Engagement: Activism in Investing
December 10, 2017
On November 16, 2017, headlines across major business and finance news outlets led with stories that Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund proposed to sell off all oil and gas stocks from their index. This was just the latest in a series of…
2017 Moskowitz Prize Winner: Who Benefits From Socially Responsible Governance?
October 30, 2017
By Nuria Marquez Martinez, Masters of Journalism candidate & CRB Editorial Writer In 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an op-ed in The New York Times Magazine which argued that the primary role of a corporation was to serve its shareholders, and…
