@HarvardIMPACT

Furthering Harvard faculty, student & global alumni dialogue around Sustainability & IMPACT (Investment-Measurement-Policy-Advocacy-Climate-Tech4good)♻️

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owltail.com/people/s6Ytx-har… Honored to be one of Family Office World's top ranked podcasts! Speaking with leading family office advisor Ron Diamond on taking impact investing to some of the largest family offices on the planet...and why it's a critical business strategy!
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Harvard C-CHANGE@HarvardCCHANGE19 Jun 2020
Air pollution disproportionately impacts black communties, leads to higher temps and higher rates of premature births & stillborns for black mothers. "Doing nothing about air pollution...is racism in action,"- @CathFlowers of @CleanAirMoms in @nytimes ow.ly/ck0c50AbIaS

Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most (Published 2020)

Women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have premature, underweight or stillborn babies, a look at 32 million U.S. births found.

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Listen to the Earth Day edition of @julianguderley’s #GreenPlanetBluePlanet podcast with guest @HarvardIMPACT president Tami Kesselman on #impactinvesting #divest #shareholderactivism #medialiteracy #collaboration #solutions and join the dialogue! open.spotify.com/episode/3BL…

Ep. 186 Impact Investing with Thought Leader in the field Tami Kesselman

Green Planet Blue Planet Podcast · Episode

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When you read this, Larry Fink's letter to #BlackRock's portfolio CEOs, and the @McKinsey_MGI Climate Report, you'll jump on the phone with your investment advisor. We are - finally - on the verge of repricing of assets for their climate impact. Time to review your exposure.
IntentionalEndowment@IntentEndowment23 Feb 2020
JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race theguardian.com/environment/…
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Soooo many thoughts here on what comes next and seeing if anything changes with @BlackRock stewardship pivot: How the environmental lawyer who won a massive judgment against Chevron lost everything interc.pt/38P4Rff by @fastlerner
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World's largest asset manager @BlackRock announces shift to take #ClimateChange into account across ALL asset classes. @EuropeanUnion 1 trillion announcement today too! Only 2 weeks into the Soaring 20’s and massive shifts are already beginning...! apnews.com/7eb6a90050b6eceed…

Climate is changing. Investing needs to, too, says BlackRock

NEW YORK (AP) — A changing climate means dramatic risks for the world — and for investments too, the chief of the world’s largest investment manager said Tuesday.

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Five ways that ESG creates value mckinsey.com/business-functi… via @McKQuarterly
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Impact Management Project@impmgmt29 Sep 2019
By consulting with more than 2,000 organisations since 2016, @impmgmt has reached consensus that any type of impact experienced by people and planet – intended and unintended, positive and negative – needs to be understood across five dimensions of impact buff.ly/2nit8aX
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Millennials Finally Ready to Invest as Sustainably as They Shop: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Millennials Finally Ready to Invest as Sustainably as They Shop

Wealthy millennials are finally thinking about investing in sustainable companies almost as much as they shop for socially-conscious products in stores, according to a new survey released Thursday.

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oscar perry abello@oscarthinks31 Aug 2019
Replying to @peter_haas @nytimes @Rachel__Reilly @LisaGreenHall @franseegull @rajshah @kr_cornett
Yeah, this is going to be hard, maybe close to impossible. nextcity.org/daily/entry/lon…
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Adam Rogers@AdamRogers203030 Aug 2019
Why accurate #data is needed to achieve the #SDGs: ✅for transparency ✅for action planning ✅for measuring progress ✅for mobilizing partnerships ✅& more (watch the video) cc: @undata @UNSDSN @SDGaction @UNGlobalPulse @KirkDBorne @SDG2030 @UNDP_SDGs @sdgsdataNg @SDGsData 🖥🖥 – at Bethesda, MD
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UN Global Compact@globalcompact31 Aug 2019
You have less than 24 hours to sign up for the UN @globalcompact #youngSDGinnovators programme. Apply now: unglobalcompact.org/sdgs/you…
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Fran Seegull@franseegull31 Aug 2019
This is why ⁦@ImpactInvestUS⁩ ⁦@BeeckCenter⁩ ⁦@NewYorkFed⁩ created the #OpportunityZones Reporting Framework—to support legislative intent of #community #econdev. ozframework.org. nytimes.com/2019/08/31/busin… v ⁦@BernasconiKohn⁩ ⁦#impinv #socent
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Just Capital
@JustCapital30 Aug 2019
#JUST polling data is featured in today's @ImpactAlpha piece about @BizRoundtable – confirming that the American public wants to see corporate purpose redefined and reimagined. spr.ly/6010EfL5s

Shareholders for Stakeholders: CEOs should safeguard, not silence, engaged investors

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 29 – The Business Roundtable’s statement from 181 CEOs committed to pay employees fairly, protect the environment and foster diversity and inclusion. ...

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Rise of the Rest
@RiseOfRest31 Aug 2019
"There’s no place like home. Dorothy knew it. So do #entrepreneurs." #RiseOfRest rvltn.vc/2KXbu4I
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Investments in ‘people and places’ start to demonstrate impact in Opportunity Zones impactalpha.com/investments-…

Investments in ‘people and places’ start to demonstrate impact in Opportunity Zones

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 28 – Capital is finally flowing to projects in U.S. Opportunity Zones that promote inclusive development and community empowerment. In other words, ...

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Fund managers are grappling with growing demands for ESG considerations news.trust.org/item/20190805…
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ImpactAlpha@ImpactAlpha23 Aug 2019
Blokable developed a modular housing system that can be manufactured affordably and quickly constructed for either market-rate or affordable housing projects. Read molre. impactalpha.com/blokable-sec…

Blokable secures $23 million for modular housing that promises affordability

ImpactAlpha, August 20 – A third of U.S. renters are cost-burdened from housing and every state faces an affordable housing shortage. (Even rural renters feel ...

impactalpha.com
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Vanguard Social-Investing Error Prompts Funds to Check Controls bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Vanguard Social-Investing Error Prompts Funds to Check Controls

Managers overseeing trillions in exchange-traded funds have been quietly meeting around Wall Street this week to check the quality controls on their funds, rattled after Vanguard Group Inc. mistake...

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Blue Haven Initiative@_BlueHaven2 Aug 2019
Successful #impactinvesting takes the traditional calculus for a successful stock/fund (revenues, debt, quality of management, etc.) plus a few non-traditional metrics (like a company's ecological footprint & how it treats employees). bit.ly/2Ki2GpI @brian_o_connell
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