Project on Impact Investing

Josh Lerner, Markus Lithell, and Gordon Phillips examine whether impact investors, who aim to generate both financial returns and social impact, deliver measurable outcomes for workers.

Shawn Cole, Marcus Sander, and Jonah Zahnd analyze career pathways into impact investing using a dataset of nearly 350,000 MBA graduates, offering one of the first systematic looks at employment in the sector.

Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin Roth analyze how impact investors differ from traditional investors using a comprehensive dataset of investment activity, with a focus on whether they generate truly additional social impact.

M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu, and T. Robert Zochowski present one of the first systematic efforts to study impact portfolio companies.

M. Diane Burton, Shawn Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Fanele Mashwama, Yue (Cynthia) Xu, and T. Robert Zochowski introduce a new database of US-based impact investors and their portfolio companies.

Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd

Shawn Cole, Jonah Zahnd, and Anushka Kataruka

Shawn Cole, Jonah Zahnd, and Marcus Sander