First-generation Korean-Americans brothers Lenny and Brian Chu started Lenwich (then Lenny’s) in 1989 as a classic New York deli, selling sandwiches, wraps, cold …
An impact buyout fund is helping aspiring business owners in US cities acquire profitable, cash-flowing small businesses as a pathway to asset ownership. …
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – At an earlier peak of COVID pandemic, Domini Impact Investments launched a mutual fund that looked a little different than …
ImpactAlpha, September 17 – Data centers are consuming huge amounts of electricity. Dallas-based Aligned uses energy-efficient cooling systems and has committed to 100% …
ImpactAlpha, September 8 – German automaker Daimler has issued a €1 billion ($1.2 billion), 10-year bond to transition to clean cars. Daimler’s bond …
ImpactAlpha, August 26 – An increasing number of sustainability-linked loans reward companies with lower interest rates if they meet environmental and social milestones …
ImpactAlpha, August 17 – What do Zimbabwe, Central African Republic and Navajo Nation have in common? They’re all ranked among the hardest places …
ImpactAlpha, August 11 – The proceeds from Visa’s $500 million green bond issuance are slated for investments in green buildings, renewable energy, water and …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 10 – Public market investors increasingly are deploying ESG, or environmental, social and governance, investing strategies to manage risks and opportunities …
ImpactAlpha, July 22 – There are impact investments and then there are impact investments. The recent financing of Native American Natural Foods is …
ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Sweden’s Oatly was an outlier in the 1990s, when soy milk dominated non-dairy milk options. The company’s oat-based milk …
ImpactAlpha, June 24 – Amazon has earmarked $2 billion to invest in “visionary companies whose products and solutions will facilitate the transition to a …
ImpactAlpha, May, 19 – Buy back this. That’s the increasingly loud message from employees, suppliers, communities and customers – all essential stakeholders in …
ImpactAlpha, May 19 – Even in the new stakeholder economy, suppliers, communities, customers and employees largely still lack the clout to steer the …
ImpactAlpha, April 27 – Spanish oil company Repsol is a ways down the list of global oil and gas majors. But it’s among …
ImpactAlpha, April 8 – Tech CEO Jack Dorsey said (via tweet) that he would move $1 billion of his Square equity, about 28% …
In the now-classic model of technology adoption, the most difficult step is expanding from aspirational visionaries to hard nosed pragmatists. Innovations that “cross …
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 21 – Microsoft is going beyond net-zero to “carbon negative.” Shell’s CEO is admitting the oil giant knew the risks of climate …
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 14 – Sustainability, and in particular climate risk, is disrupting asset management. “In the near future, and sooner than most anticipate, …
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 14 – When it comes to corporations known for responsible business and sustainable practices, Unilever is often cited as one of …
ImpactAlpha, January 13 – Corporate operations are the key to sustainable business and to impact investing at scale. Corporations’ approximately $183 billion per …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 9 – India’s social stock exchange is expected to take the form of an electronic fundraising platform regulated by the Securities and …
ImpactAlpha, November 27 – The twist in the A$600,000 loan (US$407,000) from Impact Investment Group: the more social impact employment startup Xceptional delivers, …
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 25 – More than 1,100 participants from 20 countries will descend on Mumbai this week for the Sankalp Forum. Now in its …
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 14 –From Moline, Illinois, John Deere & Co. directs operations in 180 countries and nearly $40 billion a year in revenues. To …
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 11 – Veterans have a natural affinity for entrepreneurship. Just ask the founders of Nike, Fed-Ex, WalMart, and USAA. The leadership, team-building, …
ImpactAlpha, November 5 – The gap between the haves and have-nots is widening in the Bay Area, brought on by an influx of …
More than 320 million tons of plastic is produced annually, much of which ends up in oceans or landfill. Production is expected to …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 29 – The controversial Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia gets underway today. The secret agenda (until yesterday) of the Saudi …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – Most investments in public equities are held in “passive” accounts that keep fees low by tracking standardized indexes such as …
New York, NY – You know we’re in trouble when investors and bankers are our best hope for climate action. With many global …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 23 – Data-analytics platform Splunk launched a venture investment arm that will include a $50 million “social impact fund.” Splunk Ventures also …
The six-month old green cleaning product startup raised the seed funds in a round led by Henkel Ventures, the investment arm of the …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 16 – Another everyday staple is under scrutiny. “The Issue With Tissue” from environmental watchdog NRDC details the environmental and social harm …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 3 – Blackrock and Vanguard voted against shareholder resolutions pressing climate change concerns in the past year at Exxon, Duke Energy, …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 29 – As legacy private equity firms move into impact investing (see, “For private equity giants, $1 billion is table stakes for …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 29 – The Business Roundtable’s statement from 181 CEOs committed to pay employees fairly, protect the environment and foster diversity and inclusion. …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 26 – CEOs of Ben & Jerry’s, Danone, Sundial Brands, and 30 other certified “B Corps” called in a full-page ad in …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 22 – Increasing accountability to employees, customers, suppliers and communities shouldn’t mean decreased accountability to shareholders. Especially when some of those shareholders …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 20 – The statement from nearly 200 CEOs redefining ‘corporate purpose’ to include customers, workers, communities and suppliers, along with shareholders, catches …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 6 – BlackRock owned 5% of PG&E before the California utility collapsed in what the Wall Street Journal called “The first climate-change bankruptcy.” …
ImpactAlpha, July 29 – Credit ratings and research firm Moody’s has acquired a majority stake in climate risk analytics company Four Twenty Seven. Four …
One of the few bright spots in GE’s story of value destruction is the spinout of the company’s unit that designs, builds and operates distributed …
ImpactAlpha, July 25 – “Two important factors – inclusive growth and climate transition – had become significant drivers of growth, risk, and operational efficiency …
ImpactAlpha, July 23 – The goal seems straightforward enough: assess and compare how companies use natural, human and financial capital to provide their …
