(Outlet: Financial Times) Vit Henisz on ESG investors needing thorough analyses and local knowledge when entering emerging markets…Read More
Making funding flows fair: Must ESG be bad news for emerging markets?
ESG Initiative News
Tracking the Financial Stakes in Curbing Emissions
(Outlet: Knowledge at Wharton) New research co-authored by Wharton’s Arthur van Benthem breaks down how climate risk guides investors in energy companies…Read More
My experience sourcing Lula Delivery for the Fund for Health
Michael Karamardian, PSOM’24, and fellow Fund for Health associates pitch Lula Delivery, an all-encompassing platform to help single-store operators enter the online delivery marketplace, to the Investment Committee. …Read More
Wharton hosts Climate Prof event for Climate Week
(Outlet: The Daily Pennsylvanian) Arthur van Benthem and Sarah Light on showcasing climate-related research to students.…Read More
Exxon’s Exodus: Employees Have Finally Had Enough of Its Toxic Culture
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Exxon Mobil’s internal resistance to addressing climate change …Read More
Banks and business leaders who use ESG aren’t ‘woke.’ They’re protecting their bottom lines
(Outlet: Fortune) Vit Henisz on “woke capitalism” and the anti-ESG movement.…Read More
Business Schools Are Beginning to Embrace Stakeholder Inclusion
(Outlet: Bloomberg) Vit Henisz on Wharton becoming the first large MBA program to offer a major in ESG factors for business.…Read More
Impact Underperformance
(Outlet: Impact Entrepreneur) Michael Brown on what impact underperformance looks like and why it matters…Read More
How ESG investing got tangled up in America’s culture wars
(Outlet: NPR) Vit Henisz on how ESG is an investment strategy, not a political argument.…Read More
WIVA’s Latest Researched Company Aims to Improve Learning Outcomes for Indigenous Students
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