(Outlet: Plan Sponsor) A new book from the Pension Research Council is for anyone interested in understanding the historical context, current practices and future prospects of ESG investing in the pension industry, reports Olivia S. Mitchell, the executive director, Pension Research Council Director, Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.…Read More
Now in its fifth year, TIPC is a year-long, graduate student ESG investing competition produced by the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School and supported by naming sponsor Bobby Turner and founding corporate sponsor Bank of America. This year, 150 students spanning over 35 teams from 15 universities across the U.S. participated in total. These students join hundreds of TIPC alumni across the country who have completed the program.…Read More
(Outlet: The Economic Times) Wharton Climate Center Faculty Co-Director Arthur van Benthem sat down with the Economic Times to discuss ESG reporting, sustainability metrics, and fossil fuels in the energy transition.…Read More
(Outlet: Kleinman Center for Energy Policy) Wharton Climate Center Faculty Co-Director Arthur van Benthem explores what one oil company’s transformation into a wind energy superpower signals for the industry at large.…Read More
(Outlet: Bloomberg) In this live special edition of “Bloomberg Equality,” Scarlet Fu and Romaine Bostick cover stakeholder capitalism and the politicization of ESG with special guest Witold Henisz, Vice Dean of the ESG Initiative at The Wharton School.…Read More
(Outlet: The Hill) The insurance industry is increasingly wary of the risks presented by climate and natural disasters, prompting major firms to scale back their presence in more vulnerable states. Benjamin Keys, Assistant Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School chimes in on the nationwide impact.…Read More
(Outlet: Kleinman Center for Energy Policy) Arthur van Benthem, Wharton Climate Center Faculty Co-Director, writes about his recent study that seeks to explore the effectiveness of Europe’s land protections and finds the quantity of land protected is not as important as policies that target areas with a meaningful trade-off between biodiversity gains and economic costs.…Read More
(Outlet: Politico) This year’s proxy season hasn’t been kind to environmental or pro-ESG proposals so far. Witold Henisz, Vice Dean and Faculty Director of the ESG Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, points to why this may be.…Read More
Even at a business school filled with the best and the brightest, Tyler Jonas stands out for her role in helping grow two experiential learning programs that began about the same time she was a freshman: Wharton Impact Venture Associates (WIVA) and the Penn Medicine – Wharton Fund for Health (Fund for Health).…Read More
Graduate students from around the world compete in impact investing through the Turner MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) program, with diverse teams and innovative ideas taking center stage.…Read More
