Mission Statement
Led by Harvard Business School Professor Shawn Cole (Finance), the HBS Social Impact Collaboratory is a research-led effort to advance the understanding and practice of impact investing by developing world-class educational offerings, supporting rigorous academic research, and engaging with industry to accelerate practice.
The Collab is a part of the Impact Finance Research Consortium, a partnership with
Wharton’s ESG Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania and the Booth Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation at the University of Chicago.
Together, we are building the Impact Finance Database (IFD), the world’s most comprehensive database on impact investing. Begun in 2014 at the Wharton School, the IFD now houses data on nearly 300 of the world’s impact investing funds.