The CEO of Eco Tasar, a socially responsible company based in India has to decide how to deal with a customer request that may jeopardize his corporate values.
Does your board meet these seven sustainability tests?
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Does your board view sustainability as resilience and long-term value? Discover seven tests to guide strategic, value-driven sustainability decisions.
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A thread of hope: Gender lens due diligence on Bankamoda
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The Bankamoda case looks at due diligence in the impact investing context. The protagonist, Estefanía Abello, is a Colombia-based senior associate at the Swiss AlphaMundi Group (AMG), an impact first but very commercially minded impact investor that invests in Africa and Latin America. Since 2017, AMG had been integrating gender analysis throughout its investment process. The case opens with Abello having completed the due diligence and considering her recommendation to the AMG Investment Committee on whether to invest in Bankamoda, a women-founded, women-led fintech offering loans to the underbanked micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the apparel and textile industry in Columbia. While this startup fit the profile gender lens investing perspective, the investment also carried significant risks. Students assume the role of Abello and need to balance impact and financial considerations and consider risk mitigation strategies as they make a recommendation. Through this case, students can experience a real impact investing due diligence, understand gender lens investing, explore the layers of considerations needed to build a compelling investment case and simulate how best to present proposals to an investment committee.
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IMD-7-2516
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Bankamoda
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Finance and Insurance, Investment Management;Finance and Insurance, Financial Services
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English
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As sustainability reporting rules are diluted, the real test for CFOs begins
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Even as sustainability reporting rules are diluted, investors are using AI to turn nonfinancial disclosures and data into valuation insights. Florian Hoos examines what this means for CFOs and why companies cannot rely on extensive disclosures to ...
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What type of sustainability approach does your business have?
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Over years of research into hundreds of companies, we've found that businesses fall into recognizable patterns, or mindsets, based on two simple variables: how much they invest in sustainability beyond what regulation requires and how broad or nar...
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AI and the CSO: 7 ways to drive competitive advantage
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The role of the chief sustainability officer (CSO) has moved from the margins to the center of corporate strategy. Here are seven ways to harness AI to embed sustainability and drive growth.
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AI and the CSO: 7 ways to drive competitive advantage
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The role of the chief sustainability officer (CSO) has moved from the margins to the center of corporate strategy. Here are seven ways to harness AI to embed sustainability and drive growth.
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Sustainability isn’t the reason people buy
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Here is a question worth considering next time you go to the supermarket: when was the last time you bought something primarily because it was sustainable? Not just sustainable along with everything else you cared about. But sustainable as the lea...
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Clean winners, you don’t need to change your customers
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There is a belief embedded deep in most corporate sustainability strategies: if we just communicated better and showed customers the science and the stakes around our green products, more of them would come around to buying them (even if they were...
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How China’s energy transition is reshaping global business
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China’s energy transition is creating new sources of market power. Mark Greeven and Sophie Liu explain what it means for global business.
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China's energy transition
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In 2025, China’s wind and solar capacity overtook coal for the first time. The milestone passed with little fanfare outside the industry but marks a turning point that executives can’t afford to miss. China’s energy transition was a story about ex...
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