Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

July 2020
Teaching Material

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal

June 2020
Teaching Material

Generation Investment Management

This teaching note provides guidance for teaching the case “Generation Investment Management” (820-033), which looks at the challenges facing a sustainable investment firm.

March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta

By January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in London in 2004, had grown from a shared vision among seven founders to a 90-person firm managing $27 billion in public and private equity. Throughout its history,...

December 2019
Teaching Material

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Shawn A. Cole

February 2019 (Revised October 2019)
Teaching Material

The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact

By: Vikram S Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-041.

September 2018 (Revised June 2019)
Case

THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds

By: Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Nathaniel Schwalb

After much internal debate, THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS of Denmark have decided to allocate a small percentage of their investment portfolio to impact investments. Cambridge Associates, one of the leading investment advisory firms in the world, has been engaged to assist...

June 2018 (Revised December 2018)
Teaching Material

Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

April 2018
Teaching Material

Background Note: Managing and Measuring Impact

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

April 2018 (Revised May 2018)
Case

Goldman Sachs: Making an Imprint in Impact Investing

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Lynn Schenk

Goldman Sachs acquired Imprint Capital Advisors, a small firm that specialized in advising clients on environmental/social/governance (ESG) and impact investments. The founders sold Imprint with the belief that joining a global financial firm would help to scale impact...

March 2018 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Lynn Schenk

This case focuses on the 10-year journey of one of the world's largest global financial institutions developing a sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to...

March 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Teaching Material

Background Note: Examining the Case for Investing for Impact

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

March 2018
Teaching Material

Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Aldo Sesia

This courseware was created to allow students to model E-Leather's enterprise value (EV) in early 2014. Yellow cells in the Enterprise Value (EV) worksheets indicate where students provide inputs. The other worksheets provide information to help students make decisions...