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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2019

  Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects

  Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King and Auden Schendler

  This working paper examines key barriers to business sustainability discussed at a multidisciplinary conference held at the Harvard Business School in 2018. Drawing on perspectives from both the historical and business literatures, speakers debated the historical success and future opportunities for voluntary business actions to advance sustainability. Roadblocks include misaligned incentives, missing institutions, inertia of economic systems, and the concept of sustainability itself. It appears that overcoming these roadblocks will require systematic interventions and alternative normative concepts.

  Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Opportunities;

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  Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler. "Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-067, January 2019.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | September 2018 (Revised December 2018)

  THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds

  Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme, Nathaniel Schwalb, 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 them in developing and implementing an “impact strategy.” VELUX only invests in funds (as opposed to direct investments) and must now decide on fund selection criteria and on specific fund investment options that have been presented to them.

  Keywords: impact investing; Mission-Related Investing; foundations; Investment; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Consulting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Denmark; Europe;

  Citation:

  Gandhi, Vikram, Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds." Harvard Business School Case 819-021, September 2018. (Revised December 2018.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | September 2018 (Revised December 2018)

  THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds

  Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme, Nathaniel Schwalb, 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 them in developing and implementing an “impact strategy.” VELUX only invests in funds (as opposed to direct investments) and must now decide on fund selection criteria and on specific fund investment options that have been presented to them.

  Keywords: impact investing; Mission-Related Investing; foundations; Investment; Venture Capital; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Strategy; Investment Funds; Decision Making; Consulting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Denmark; Europe;

  Citation:

  Gandhi, Vikram, Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS: Selecting Impact Funds." Harvard Business School Case 819-021, September 2018. (Revised December 2018.)  View Details

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