Good, Evil, Wicked

The Art, Science, and Business of Sustainable Finance
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-22823-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This is an open access book offers candid, eye-opening insights of cautionary tales and successes of social investors in philanthropy, impact investing, and ESG as they advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A 10-year journey of research across five continents, Good, Evil and Wicked includes interviews with 1,800 CEOs and senior leaders in 20 countries and builds on the classroom experience of 800 senior executives from 80 countries. The book examines their stories using a unique framework, Deliberate Leadership. ™

This is an open access book.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Gayle

Yawson, Robert

Webb, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Do No EvilChapter 3: The Wicked Problem ConstructChapter 4: Deliberate LeadershipChapter 5: Models of Dynamic Collaboration and Community EngagementChapter 6: Planning and Adaptive ProcessesChapter 7: Candour, Transparency, and Iterative Learning ModelsChapter 8:  Aligning Money and Mission and Purpose and PartnersChapter 9: A New Philanthropic and Social Investor Framework 

Appendices of Cases

A selected group of the following cases will comprise the appendices:

Peterson, Gayle, A History of Gender Lens Investing, 2022

Peterson, Gayle, Slavery and Impact Investing, 2022

Peterson, Gayle, Eyes Wide Open: Impact Investing in Mtanga Farms, Africa’s First Impact Investment, 2022

Peterson, Gayle, Lumina Foundation: A Ten-Year Retrospective of Lumina Impact Ventures, the Foundation’s Impact Investing Initiative, 2022

Peterson, Gayle, Making Money Matter: Expanding Impact investing in Oceans, Fisheries, and Livelihoods, 2022

Peterson, Gayle, The Case for Divest-Invest Movement, December 2021

Peterson, Gayle, Partners for a New Economy Foundation: Flying Blind—Hunting Down New Economic Theories at the OECD in Times of Crisis, 2021 

Peterson, Gayle, Partners for a New Economy Foundation: Future-Fit Foundation: A New Benchmarking Paradigm for Business in Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2019

Peterson, Gayle, UBS Optimus Foundation: From Giving to Investing, 2018

Peterson, Gayle, Humanity United: Launching the Working Capital Fund, 2018

Peterson, Gayle, Wallace Global Fund: Investing in Climate Action and Clean Energy Access: Views through a Gender Lens, 2018

Peterson, Gayle, Ivey, Suncor Energy, and J.W. McConnell Foundations: Social Finance Strategies for a Canadian Low-Carbon Economy, 2018 

Peterson, Gayle, The Kresge Foundation: Social Investment Practice in Detroit: Building Sustainable Cities through Blended Capital, 2017 

Peterson, Gayle, Silicon Valley Community Foundation: Silicon Valley Technology and Social Finance: Aligning Values and Community Change, 2017

Peterson, Gayle, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: The Power of Feedback: Solving Wicked Problems through Listening and Learning, 2016

Peterson, Gayle, BNY Mellon Capital: Building a Carbon Efficiency Strategy, 2016

Peterson, Gayle, W.K. Kellogg Foundation: Leadership in Impact Investing, 2015 

Peterson, Gayle, Vladimir Potanin Foundation: Arts, Education, and Philanthropy, 2015 

Peterson, Gayle, Vodafone India Foundation: Employee Engagement, 2015

Peterson, Gayle, Thomson Reuters Foundation: TrustLaw Serving the World's Poor, 2015

Peterson, Gayle and Robert Yawson, The Triple Bottom-Line and Investing for Impact: The Case of Afram Plains District of Ghana, Case Centre, Reference no. 714-006-8, 2014.

Über Autor(innen)

Gayle Peterson, lead author, directs the Oxford Impact Investing Programme and the Oxford Social Finance Programme and co-founded Women Transforming Leadership. Gayle has more than 25 years of experience in impact measurement and management believing the greatest impact is community-driven. She is lead author of Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change. Gayle holds an MA in Social Policy and Law from the University of Chicago and an MSc from the HEC-Paris School of Management and Oxford University. She is founder and Senior Managing Director of pfc social impact advisors, a global consultancy that helps people and organizations use money, time and passion and purpose to build a more just world.

Ali Webb has worked with the top leadership of national foundations, local and federal governments, and non-governmental sectors. Ali worked at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation  for 19 years. She has a BA from Stanford University. Her MPA was earned at Harvard's Kennedy School and her PhD in Mass Media from Michigan State University. In addition to her current consulting practice, Webb teaches at the Ford School of Policy at the University of Michigan and the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. 

Robert M. Yawson is an Associate Professor of Management and the Chair of the Entrepreneurship, International Business & Strategy (EIBS) Department at the School of Business, Quinnipiac University, CT. He is also the Faculty Coordinator for the Master of Science in Organizational Leadership Program. He was the Graduate Programs Assessment Coordinator for six years (2014 - 2020). Robert is Editor-in-Chief of the Organization Management Journal, Editor of the Business and Management Section, SAGE Open, and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Business and Systems Research.