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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

One school of thought held that, for microfinance to scale and attract and maintain commercial capital, it needed to show that it could achieve market rates of return. The Working World, which provides loans to worker-owned cooperatives in the U.S. Second, should microfinance make money, and if so, how much?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. One study estimated that companies experience an average internal rate of return of 27% to 80% on their low carbon investments. ” Improving risk management.

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The Fortune 500 Can’t Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy

Harvard Business Review

It is very possible that global cooperation to fight climate change will collapse as a result of the Trump presidency. At this stage he could also attempt to roll back the EPA clean power plan and the other regulatory initiatives that the Obama administration has put into place over the last eight years.