(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Exxon Mobil’s internal resistance to addressing climate change …Read More
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Exxon Mobil’s internal resistance to addressing climate change …Read More
(Outlet: Fortune) Vit Henisz on “woke capitalism” and the anti-ESG movement.…Read More
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Wharton becoming the first large MBA program to offer a major in ESG factors for business.…Read More
(Outlet: Impact Entrepreneur) Michael Brown on what impact underperformance looks like and why it matters…Read More
(Outlet: NPR) Vit Henisz on how ESG is an investment strategy, not a political argument.…Read More
7GG was born when researchers, including co-founder Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, analyzed the learning outcomes of Native American and Alaskan Native students. They observed that these Indigenous students were underperforming compared to other students across the United States, and that existing approaches to change the outcomes were not yielding results. Digging deeper into the research, they hypothesized that integrating familiar language and culture into math education could improve test outcomes.…Read More
The ESG Initiative at Wharton offers numerous curricular and co-currlicular opportunities for Penn and Wharton students to help them gain the experience, knowledge, and skills to shape an ethical and sustainable world through business. Here are five ways you can get involved – and how to stay up to date with our program offerings.…Read More
(Outlet: The New York Times) Nearly two dozen Republican state treasurers around the country are working to thwart climate action on state and federal levels, fighting regulations that would make clear the economic risks posed by a warming world, lobbying against climate-minded nominees to key federal posts and using the tax dollars they control to punish companies that want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.…Read More
(Outlet: The Boston Globe) President Biden’s rebound case of COVID-19 has highlighted the continued public health threat posed by the rapidly spreading BA.5 variant. COVID infections are becoming more common, with cases spiking in most states just when population immunity is dropping.…Read More
(Outlet: Financial Times) This past weekend we read with interest The Economist’s deep dive into environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. The central argument is that ESG “is deeply flawed”; that it is riddled with greenwashing and has become “an unholy mess that needs to be ruthlessly streamlined”. Those who have been around this space for a while know there is a good bit of it that is indeed in need of a good pruning.…Read More