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Jed emerson is strategic advisor to family offices and wealth management firms executing diverse approaches to investing for financial returns with social and environmental impact. If you want to know what jed emerson thinks about impact investing or social entrepreneurship, read his seven books or one of his numerous papers. Enhancing the performance of your enterprising nonprofit, and the impact investor. Collaborative capitalism and the rise of impact investing sees these movements as signs of a much more fundamental shift, as finance as a whole responds to an increased consumer demand for market transparencythe need to know exactly what we are buying, where and how it was made, and who it affects. Collaborative capitalism and the rise of impact investing wiley. The central theme of the book is that we are at an inflection point.
Frankly, much of the literature is also simply published publicly and is freely available. Lessons in leadership and strategy for collaborative capitalism by clark, cathy, emerson, jed, thornley, ben isbn. Social finance edited by alex nicholls, rob paton, and jed emerson. This site has been created to present writings and presentations on the concept of blended value.
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