Knowledge Items

What does SCALING mean when you’re talking about a solution to a social or environmental challenge, versus a more traditional market solution? At CASE we talk about SCALING your IMPACT, versus just scaling your organization’s size. In this short video we share what that means, how it’s different, and what it looks like in practice.

November 2023 BlueMark-CASE-Field-Guide-2023 About the Guide: “A Field Guide: Impact Due Diligence and Management for Asset Allocators” aims to drive more rigor and consistency in how asset allocators evaluate and manage private market funds that invest for positive impacts on people and the planet. Developed in 2023 through interviews with 50+ Limited Partners (LPs) and […]

Cathy Clark (CASE Faculty Director), Monique Aiken (The Investment Integration Project), and Fran Seegull (US Impact Investing Alliance) partnered with ImpactAlpha to discuss the State of the Field of Impact Investing, a nearly decade-long annual tradition. The trio discussed the global hardships of the current moment – from multiple crises to the status of the UN’s SDGs, the majority of which are […]

CASE Faculty Director Cathy Clark shared this keynote address in September 2023 at the Impact Measurement and Management Summit: Time to Act in Türkiye

Cathy Clark (Faculty Director, CASE) is now one of the leading experts in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and “business for good”…but this career path was mostly unplanned. After people literally laughed at the idea, she helped develop the standards for B Corps, now the global certification measuring companies’ social and environmental impact. She has since […]

In this December 2022 article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, authors Erin Worsham and Kimberly Bardy Langsam share a checklist to avoid common problems that funders have identified in evaluating applications. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/why_we_didnt_fund_your_scaling_plan#

TCFD – Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures is a framework for translating the physical and transition risks of climate change to financial outcomes. It can be useful for understanding how climate change will affect environmental impact outputs and outcomes.  This Brief contains straightforward information to equip MBA students and practitioners with the answers […]

SFDR – Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation is a disclosure framework designed to introduce transparency into sustainable investments, assets, and products and combat financial greenwashing. SFDR is required for EU-based investors and investments and thus is influencing global disclosure framework implementation.  This Brief contains straightforward information to equip MBA students and practitioners with the answers to […]

SASB – Sustainability Accounting Standards Board is a voluntary reporting framework that identifies and provides guidance for sustainability-based topics within an industry and translates them to financially material information that can be used to make better investment decisions.  This Brief contains straightforward information to equip MBA students and practitioners with the answers to basic questions […]

PRI – Principles for Responsible Investment are a set of six principles, supported by the United Nations, designed to foster a sustainable global financial system. PRI signatories agree to submit an annual report that evaluates their investing activities, policies, and accountability. The principles promote the incorporation of ESG issues in investment decisions. This Brief contains […]