As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. In his eagerness to start running the business, he’d put the issue off, but the bank was already confronting two problematic requests, one involving fracking and another concerning guns.
Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?
A fictional case study examines the challenges of ethical banking.
January 28, 2014
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