More venture capital funds are leveraging the potential of women to drive a large untapped multi-trillion-dollar market, according to Wharton Social Impact Initiative's landmark gender lens study.
The NBA star helped closed the $1 billion Turner Multifamily Impact Fund and plans to focus on critically-needed affordable housing in Dallas, Austin, Las Vegas, Miami and Washington D.C.
Projected growth in impact investing will require greater accessibility to relevant and transparent data, argues Sean Tennerson, a Program Officer at the Case Foundation. She believes that data will power the next stages of impact investing's growth.
Top B-schools like Wharton and Harvard are seeing the value of impact investing and getting their skins into the game.
Wharton's MIINT program, for instance, is a year-long experiential lab designed to give students at business and graduate schools a hands-on education in impact investing....