Overview
- Leading experts explain the major initiatives and challenges, providing practical examples and solutions
- Presents a structured overview of global challenges, investors’ solutions and socio-economic and culture impacts on leadership, organizational alignment and financial resilience
- Provides guidance for culture cascades down from leadership commitment to strategic positioning, people and risk management, opportunity creation, value chain management and good governance
Part of the book series: Sustainable Finance (SUFI)
Buy print copy
About this book
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (15 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Karen Wendt is Multiple Entrepreneur, Business Angel, Impact Investing Advisor and scientist lecturing at various universities worldwide about foreign direct investing and impact investing. She has worked as a change, thought and action leader in international investment banking and was among the thought leaders in designing the Equator Principles, the first industry wide framework for de-risking assets form environmental, social and governance risks, creating the first level playing field in finance for eco-social impact measurement and management. The Equator Principles team was assigned the prestigious Financial Times Sustainability Award. Karen has been introducing and using mediation alongside project structuring as a facilitation tool to prevent problems becoming entrenched disputes that may delay or hinder finance. She introduced and led the Extra-Financial Risk Management Team of a top tier global bank, where she introduced the Equator Principles, Karen started her careerat a major German Bank after working for the European Commission. She holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool. As Member of the Steering Committee of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions Association since its inception. she has undertaken research on impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, investment banking culture, the role of alignment of interests and values and the impact of leadership behavior on trust and value identity and stakeholder engagement. She is the editor of the Sustainable Finance and SDG Economics Book series with Springer Nature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Positive Impact Investing
Book Subtitle: A Sustainable Bridge Between Strategy, Innovation, Change and Learning
Editors: Karen Wendt
Series Title: Sustainable Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10118-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10117-0Published: 11 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13232-3Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10118-7Published: 21 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2522-8285
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8293
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 304
Number of Illustrations: 85 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Ethics, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Business Strategy/Leadership, Sustainable Development