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ESG
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Blog Network
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Alumni News
May 08, 2025

Like Mother, Like Daughter

A family celebrates a 30th reunion and a graduation in the same weekend.

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Blog Network
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ESG
November 11, 2024

On a Mission to Go Greener

These Wharton veterans are leading the way on key environmental and sustainability efforts in business.

Adventure Capitalists
People
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International
Fall/Winter 2024

Adventure Capitalists

Burton Flynn WG14 and Ivan Nechunaev WG19 have found themselves searching all over the world — quite literally — in their exhaustive hunt for emerging-markets investments.

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Blog Network
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ESG
October 14, 2024

Saving Every Drop

How alumni are making a difference in the water industry

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Ideas
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Research
Spring/Summer 2024

How to Resolve Conflict in Business

Five Wharton faculty share insights about conflict in its many forms and how to navigate it, resolve it, reframe it, or even avoid it entirely, for better results.

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School News
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Economics
December 12, 2023

40 Years of Wharton’s Business Economics and Public Policy Department

Faculty and alumni reflect on how the first program of its kind has evolved

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Ideas
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Law/Business Ethics
Spring/Summer 2023

Bringing Green Speech Back to Earth

Legal studies and business ethics professor Sarah Light examines the legal complexities and public impacts of companies’ environmental claims.

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Ideas
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ESG
Spring/Summer 2023

Why Some Firms Keep Quiet About ESG

A primer on the troubling trend of “greenhushing” and what it means for climate change

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Research
Spring/Summer 2023

Ask Me Anything

Ever wish you could call or text a Wharton professor with a burning business question or to get a quick take on a headline-making trend? Eleven faculty members fielded queries about everything from workplace changes to the impacts of ChatGPT to the state of affairs for cryptocurrency and social media regulation.

Six illustrated portraits of Wharton alumni experts at the forefront of ESG.
People
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ESG
Fall/Winter 2022

Profits and Purpose

More companies are embracing environmental, social, and governance standards. But can the ESG promise of net-zero pledges, improved corporate responsibility, and sustainable strategies also be green for investors and shareholders?

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News
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From the Dean
Spring/Summer 2022

Transforming Business, Changing the World

Dean Erika James on the importance of elevating environmental, social, and governance issues in business curricula

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Ideas
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ESG
Spring/Summer 2022

How Should Companies Respond to ESG Issues?

Key takeaways from a three-part conversation on business’s changing role in society

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People
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ESG
Fall/Winter 2021

The Social Impact Imperative

New goals for a changing world

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Ideas
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ESG
Fall/Winter 2021

A Sound Plan for Sustainable Investing?

Pension funds have great potential to drive companies toward ESG practices, but several hurdles stand in the way.

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Ideas
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ESG
Spring/Summer 2021

The Case for Responsible Business

Influencing companies to shift strategy and take on society’s pressing issues

Is There Social Good in Green Investing?
Ideas
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Finance
Spring/Summer 2021

Is There Social Good in Green Investing?

Research by associate finance professor Luke Taylor examines the impact of ESG stocks on society and investor portfolios.

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