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Sustainable Investment Funds Can Encourage Worse Behavior

The Horizons Tracker

Subsequently, leveraging historical data, the researchers evaluated the responses of the highest and lowest polluting groups to fluctuations in their capital costs, an impact similar to the objectives of the sustainable investing movement. However, she believes that there are more direct methods of effecting change.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

In a way it’s surprisingly close to Shiller, but Shiller’s view is that people can’t know the true model and then become excessively influenced by social forces, and can get into a herd mentality. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. You have to say where it is exactly.

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