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The F.B. Heron Foundation: 100 Percent for Mission - And Beyond
Ewald, Charles; Krauel Patel, Heidi; Foroughi, JaclynCase SGSB-SI140-EInnovation and ChangeIn late March 2017, Clara Miller, director and president of the F.B. Heron Foundation (“Heron”), a philanthropic institution focused on helping people help themselves out of poverty, sat down to put the finishing touches on her President’s Letter. In previous years, the letter included Miller’s lucid thoughts regarding major changes within the organization and advocated for movement toward a “philanthropic world”—a world in which “all sectors—pu...Starting at €8.20
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Forestry and Timberland: Impact Investment Analysis
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI156-EInnovation and ChangeMuch like the famous philosophical thought experiment, impact investing raises questions about perception, observation, and reality. What is our sense that an investment results in social, environmental, and financial return? What changes can we observe taking place? What is the state of the situation as it exists (perhaps by measurement)? This case study applies this framework to our analysis of the social, environmental, and financial impact of...Starting at €8.20
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Nuveen and the Seychelles Blue Bond: Analayzing a Public Fixed Income Impact Investment
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI163-EInnovation and ChangeIn 2016, Stephen M. Liberatore, CFA, lead portfolio manager for and head of Nuveen’s impact fixed income strategies, received a phone call from the World Bank. The call was not unusual; in fact, Nuveen had collaborated with the World Bank in the past as lead investor on a new type of Green Bond for the World Bank’s private sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC). While Green Bonds had been in existence for nearly a decade, the IFC...Starting at €8.20
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Ayudando a los directivos a vivir más y mejor. La aparición de una nueva etapa vital (y profesional)
Reina Paniagua, R.Technical Note IIST-DGIN-87Innovation and ChangeEl mundo está experimentando un gran cambio demográfico, aumentándose la esperanza de vida. Todo esto traerá consigo un cambio radical porque permitirá que millones de personas de esa edad sigan trabajando, ahorrando, creando y consumiendo. Lo que hará posible que nazcan nuevas industrias para servirles y nuevos emprendedores, muchos de ellos senior, que encuentren nuevas oportunidades. Lo que también debemos hacer es, entendiendo que tenemos más...Starting at €8.20
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REDF Impact Investing Fund (RIIF): Alternative Risk Ratings
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI157-EInnovation and ChangeIn February 2022, nearly three years after the launch of the REDF Impact Investing Fund (RIIF), a 501(c)(3) debt fund providing financing and capacity building to grow social enterprises employing individuals overcoming barriers to work, CEO Carrie McKellogg was both humbled and hopeful. Much had been learned in her time at the helm of RIIF, both within the portfolio and in relation to the employment social enterprise (ESE) sector as a whole. Spe...Starting at €8.20
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Nuveen: Evaluating a Private Equity Impact Investment
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI160-EInnovation and ChangeFor five years, the private equity impact team at Nuveen led by Rekha Unnithan, CFA, had been watching Samunnati, a specialized agriculture value chain solutions provider located in Chennai, near the southeastern coast of India. Its mission was to support smallholder farmers, who comprised roughly 87 percent of Indian farm workers, by providing financing and capacity building for farmer collectives and larger, more diverse agri-enterprises. Throu...Starting at €8.20
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Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI): Launching a Cleantech Debt Fund
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI161-EInnovation and ChangeAfter completing a successful two-year pilot, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) was ready to launch its inaugural Debt Fund. The goal was to capitalize companies solving the greatest challenges related to climate change across three priority spaces in cleantech: transportation, clean energy, and sustainable cities. Spearheading the effort was Alex Mitchell, senior Vice President of Unlocking Innovation through the empowerment of start-up...Starting at €8.20
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Illumen Capital: Bias Reduction to Unlock Impact and Returns
Foroughi, Jaclyn; McNichols, MaureenCase SGSB-SI162-EInnovation and ChangeBuilding on Nobel Prize-winning research, nearly a decade of experience investing in impact funds, and a lifetime of social and economic justice advocacy, Daryn Dodson’s Illumen Capital, an impact investment fund-of-funds, was at a critical juncture. Prior to founding Illumen in 2017, Dodson struggled with finding a way to transfer the success he had experienced in building awareness across teams at institutional asset allocators on topics of div...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo Caviro. El valor de la uva
Reina Paniagua, R.; Garrido Martinez, E.Case IIST-DGI-368Innovation and ChangeCaviro era la empresa cooperativa vitivinícola más grande de Italia. Desde sus inicios no solo producían vino, sino que gestionaban muchos de los subproductos del fruto generando valor hasta el final. Caviro había desarrollado un modelo único de economía circular con una recuperación casi completa de los residuos de la cadena de suministro. Esa gestión integral de los residuos orgánicos provenientes de la cosecha y de la elaboración del vino era ...Starting at €8.20
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Gruppo Caviro: Il valore dell'uva
Garrido Martinez, E.; Reina Paniagua, R.Case IIST-DGI-368-I-ITInnovation and ChangeCaviro è stata la più grande azienda cooperativa vinicola d'Italia. Fin dalla sua nascita, non solo hanno prodotto vino, ma hanno anche gestito molti dei sottoprodotti della frutta, generando valore fino alla fine. Caviro aveva sviluppato un modello di economia circolare unico con un recupero quasi completo degli scarti della filiera. Questa gestione completa dei rifiuti organici della vendemmia e della vinificazione è stata un complemento perfet...Starting at €8.20