Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
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Jun 30, 2022
Environmentally sound and financially rewarding? Key findings from an exploratory study on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi)
By Milena Bar, Ottilia Henningsson, & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ The Science-Based Targets initiative aligns firms’ emission reduction targets with a...
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Jun 27, 2022
Constructing Social Portfolios: A Quantitative versus Screening Approach
By Alina Hofer, Lea Katharina Kasper & Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 5 min read ◦ When we talk about ESG, one could argue that there...
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Jun 17, 2022
ESG investing in a changing regulatory environment: investing in active or passive ESG financial products?
By Marco Morazzoni and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 8 min read ◦ The impending climate crisis emphasizes the need to mobilize large-scale investments to finance...
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Can we pay for success in healthcare?
By Mikkel Munksgaard Demographic megatrends, such as ageing populations, challenges public health budgets in developed countries. Currently, health costs in OECD countries are growing...
The Uberization of corporate political action
By Dieter Zinnbauer With more than USD 12 billion spent the 2020 US election cycle may well have been the most expensive political campaign...
Delivering and Financing Better Societies
How can cities self-finance environmental and social solutions? By Luise Noring Every week, more than three million people move into cities looking for places...
I Am What I Pledge – The importance of value alignment and crowdfunder behavior
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...
Why consultations on large projects should matter to citizens as well as companies
By Karin Buhmann, Sanne Vammen Larsen and Anna-Sofie Hurup Skjervedal. This article is based on their previously written piece for the Centre for Business...
Female entrepreneurs & reward-based crowdfunding: Offline inequality and online equality?
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Traditional sources of entrepreneurial finance tend to favor men, while female entrepreneurs are often bypassed. Thielst, G.H. (2019), for example,...
When business is not as usual – why companies should engage with humanitarian crises
By Verena Girschik and Jasper Hotho As evidenced in places such as Syria and Yemen, humanitarian crises are becoming ever more complex (OCHA, 2017a). In...