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Investing Responsibly: ESG and the Well-Intentioned Investor

UVA Darden

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). 1 These factors include a firm’s environmental impact (e.g., This issue came to the fore in 2022 when the U.S.

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EMPROPAZ: Financial Inclusion in a Refugee Crisis

UVA Darden

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

UVA Darden

In addition, it has built networks to provide proven health solutions, market access, business advisory services and technical assistance to advance their expansion and sustainability plans. This article was developed with the support of Darden’s Institute for Business in Society , at which Maggie Morse is director of programs.