Impact Investing: Tracking the Adoption of a Financial (and Social) Innovation Case Solution
This is just an excerpt. This case is about FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
PUBLICATION DATE: December 01, 2016
Progressively, it is feasible to produce financial returns together with favorable social and ecological impact. This is the pledge of an emerging financial investment method called 'impact investing' that is acquiring the attention of introducing financiers: huge organizations, structures and high net-worth people are moving quickly into this brand-new market. In order to be successful, the authors state, impact investing should grow beyond these leaders and reach a more comprehensive set of financiers. They reveal exactly what has to occur by walking through Everett M. Rogers' 5 qualities of effective developments: relative benefit over options; compatibility with the worths, experiences and requirements of adopters; simpleness; trialability; and presence. If effect investing can resolve its barriers-to-adoption, they conclude, it will be among the advancement developments of our time.