Carrie Gonnella

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 […]

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 […]

CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project is one of the largest disclosure systems centered around climate change, water security and deforestation. Disclosing entities can use this data to make better informed climate, water and deforestation decisions, while the CDP can inform the general public about levels of global progress being made on critical climate issues.  This […]

CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is a mandatory framework for making company sustainability reporting more common and standardized in the European Union. It is an update and replacement for the 2018 Non-Financial Reporting Directive. The first set of CSRD standards will go into effect throughout the European Union in 2023.  This Brief contains straightforward […]

This free training takes both the enterprise and investor perspective on how to align with emerging standards for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. https://www.coursera.org/learn/impact-for-sdgs/ How can businesses and investors help fill the multi-trillion-dollar gap needed for sustainable development? Simply put: by incorporating sustainability and social impact factors on people and planet into management decisions. Through […]

Entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic development – when new businesses launch and grow, they create jobs, address customer needs through market-based solutions, and drive demand for other products and services from a supply chain. With this knowledge in mind, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other development institutions have increasingly […]

By Cathy Clark and Carrie Gonnella Academic institutions can help build the impact investing field by teaching students a fuller suite of skills, clarifying the range of career paths open to them, and developing a better theoretical and practical knowledge base. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/three_lessons_for_impact_investing_education_programs