Overview
- Editors:
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Karen Wendt
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Eccos Impact GmbH, Cham, Switzerland
- Leading experts explain the major initiatives and challenges, providing practical examples and solutions
- Presents a structured overview of global challenges, investors’ solutions and socio-economic and culture impacts on leadership, organizational alignment and financial resilience
- Provides guidance for culture cascades down from leadership commitment to strategic positioning, people and risk management, opportunity creation, value chain management and good governance
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxv
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- Mario Calderini, Veronica Chiodo, Fania Valeria Michelucci
Pages 27-38
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- Olivier Jaeggi, Gabriel Webber Ziero, John Tobin-de la Puente, Julian Fritz Kölbel
Pages 39-63
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- Lukas Immervoll, Margarethe Rammerstorfer
Pages 65-96
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- Patricia Dinneen, Abigail Beach
Pages 145-162
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- Jochen Wermuth, Clara Vondrich
Pages 163-175
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- Markus Freiburg, Christina Moehrle
Pages 217-230
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- Mary Godwyn, Suzanne Fox Buchele
Pages 257-276
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- Karen Wendt, Robert Rubinstein
Pages 297-304
About this book
This book illustrates the impact that a focus on environmental and social issues has on both de-risking assets and fostering innovation. Including impact as a new cornerstone of the investment triangle requires investors and clients to align interests and values and understand needs. This alignment process functions as a catalyst for transforming organizational culture within an organization and therefore initiates the external impact of the organization, but also its internal transformation, which in turn escalates the creation of impact. Describing how culture is the social glue permeating all disciplines of an organization, the book demonstrates how organizational alignment can be achieved in order to allow strategic speed, innovation and learning, and provides examples of how impact can be achieved and staff mobilized It particularly focuses on impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, innovation, de-risking asset, green investment solutions and investor movements to counteract climate change and implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting culture, communication, and strategy.
Editors and Affiliations
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Eccos Impact GmbH, Cham, Switzerland
Karen Wendt
About the editor
Karen Wendt is Multiple Entrepreneur, Business Angel, Impact Investing Advisor and scientist lecturing at various universities worldwide about foreign direct investing and impact investing. She has worked as a change, thought and action leader in international investment banking and was among the thought leaders in designing the Equator Principles, the first industry wide framework for de-risking assets form environmental, social and governance risks, creating the first level playing field in finance for eco-social impact measurement and management. The Equator Principles team was assigned the prestigious Financial Times Sustainability Award. Karen has been introducing and using mediation alongside project structuring as a facilitation tool to prevent problems becoming entrenched disputes that may delay or hinder finance. She introduced and led the Extra-Financial Risk Management Team of a top tier global bank, where she introduced the Equator Principles, Karen started her careerat a major German Bank after working for the European Commission. She holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool. As Member of the Steering Committee of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions Association since its inception. she has undertaken research on impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, investment banking culture, the role of alignment of interests and values and the impact of leadership behavior on trust and value identity and stakeholder engagement. She is the editor of the Sustainable Finance and SDG Economics Book series with Springer Nature.
