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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

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We witness with seeming regularity the importance of ESG factors through such high-profile incidents such as Enron’s fraud (2001), the VW “Dieselgate” emissions test scandal (2015) and Facebook’s personal data privacy breach (2018). and Stacy Cooper Bicentennial Professor of Business Administration, John G.

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EMPROPAZ: Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Crisis

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The Impact Between December 2018 and June 2023, 197,000 people — 59 percent of them women and 35 percent with no more than a primary education — accessed financial services and specialized training. Their productive units show year-on-year growth in sales (25 percent), profits (31 percent) and productive assets (31 percent).

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SAMRIDH: Using Blended Finance Toward Quality Health Care in India

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This article was developed with the support of Darden’s Institute for Business in Society , at which Maggie Morse is director of programs. 2 NATHEALTH and PwC, Financing and Funding Indian Healthcare: Navigating the Turbulent Tide, 2018, [link]. Mayo Center for Asset Management; John G. Factly, May 2021, [link]. Learn More.