Positive Impact Investing: A Sustainable Bridge Between Strategy, Innovation, Change and Learning

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This book illustrates the impact that a focus on environmental and social issues has on both de-risking assets and fostering innovation. Including impact as a new cornerstone of the investment triangle requires investors and clients to align interests and values and understand needs. This alignment process functions as a catalyst for transforming organizational culture within an organization and therefore initiates the external impact of the organization, but also its internal transformation, which in turn escalates the creation of impact. Describing how culture is the social glue permeating all disciplines of an organization, the book demonstrates how organizational alignment can be achieved in order to allow strategic speed, innovation and learning, and provides examples of how impact can be achieved and staff mobilized It particularly focuses on impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, innovation, de-risking asset, green investment solutions and investor movements to counteract climate change and implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting culture, communication, and strategy. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxv Positive Impact Investing: A New Paradigm for Future Oriented Leadership and Innovative Corporate Culture (Karen Wendt)....Pages 1-26 Growing Social Impact Finance: Implications for the Public Sector (Mario Calderini, Veronica Chiodo, Fania Valeria Michelucci)....Pages 27-38 Understanding Sustainable Finance (Olivier Jaeggi, Gabriel Webber Ziero, John Tobin-de la Puente, Julian Fritz Kölbel)....Pages 39-63 Could a 100% Portfolio Beat the Market? (Lukas Immervoll, Margarethe Rammerstorfer)....Pages 65-96 Climate Change as a Topic for Impact Investing (Maximilian Horster)....Pages 97-111 Green Bonds: A Key Catalyst Within the Broader Subject of Climate Finance Post COP21 (Frank Damerow)....Pages 113-143 Compelling Reasons and Growing Evidence of Positive Impacts from Private Capital Investing in Emerging Markets (Patricia Dinneen, Abigail Beach)....Pages 145-162 Impact Investing and the “New Green Industrial Revolution”: How to Stop Climate Change Through the Divest-Invest Movement (Jochen Wermuth, Clara Vondrich)....Pages 163-175 Investments for Development in Switzerland: A Sub-type of Impact Investing with Strong Growth Dynamics (Julia Meyer, Kelly Hess)....Pages 177-195 Non-rated Impact Bonds on the Austrian Capital Market: The Example of the Don Bosco Ecuador Bond (Jasmin Güngör)....Pages 197-216 Building a Thriving Ecosystem for Social Enterprise Finance (Markus Freiburg, Christina Moehrle)....Pages 217-230 The Biological Foundation of an Evolutionary Economy and its Implications for Organizational Culture and Leadership: A New Framework for Strategic Decision-Making (Michael Sonntag)....Pages 231-255 Management Education as a Crucible for Ethical Social Change (Mary Godwyn, Suzanne Fox Buchele)....Pages 257-276 Impact Investment: The Real Issue Not Money or Innovation But Change Management (Arthur Wood)....Pages 277-296 TBLI Makes Dreams Come True: But We Are Not in Cosmetics (Karen Wendt, Robert Rubinstein)....Pages 297-304