CAN 21ST CENTURY CAPITALISM REVERSE SCHOOL FAILURE, WEALTH INEQUALITY, AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES

THE BASICS

• Definition of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance), Investopedia 

• Beyond ESG – Collaborative Governance the Next Challenge to Business, Chris Pinney, High Meadows Institute

• The Case for Stakeholder Capitalism, Vivian Hunt, Bruce Simpson, and Yuito Yamada, McKinsey

• What You Need To Know About Impact Investing, Global Impact Investing Network 

• War Stories: Fighting, Competing, Imagining, Leading, Leigh Hafrey

• The Story of Success: Five Steps to Mastering Ethics in Business, Leigh Hafrey

THE FAILURE OF CAPITALISM

• The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940, Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, Opportunity Insights

• Inequality Is Killing The American Dream, Ben Casselman, FiveThirtyEight

• Growing Wealth Inequality 'Dangerous' Threat to Democracy, Say Experts, Reuters

• Wealth Inequality in the United States, Inequality.org

• How Student Debt Became a $1.6 Trillion Crisis, Abigail Johnson Hess, CNBC 

CAN CAPITALISM HELP?

• Major Investors Demand Ambitious Methane Regulations in the U.S., Ceres 

• Does Social Impact Demand Financial Sacrifice? Knowledge @Wharton 

• The Pandemic Is Showing Us How Capitalism Is Amazing, and Inadequate, Neil Irwin, New York Times

• Business Schools Respond to a Flood of Interest in E.S.G., Jenny Gross, New York Times

• Sustainability is no Longer Enough: How Corporations are Becoming the New Climate Activists, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Daniel Korschun, and Martina Linnenluecke, California Management Review

• Big Oil CEOs Have a Personal Reason to Put More Focus on Less Fossil Fuels, Bob Woods, CNBC 

• Bridging the American Divides: Work, Community and Culture, Aspen Institute Award winning course at MIT Sloan School of Management course taught by Leigh Hafrey and others

• The Beam Center, which assists NYC public schools in work based learning 

• Leigh Hafrey of MIT Sloan School of Management to Lead Colloquium for the Common Good on World Poverty Day, CSRWire

ARJUNA CAPITAL'S WORK

• Investors Cast 78% Majority Vote Pressing for Sexual Harassment Accountability At Microsoft Annual Meeting, Arjuna Capital News

• Meet the Woman Who Convinced Apple, Starbucks, and Nike to Close Their Gender Pay Gaps, Valentina Zarya, Yahoo News

• ExxonMobil Was Just Dealt a 'Watershed' Blow as Climate Change Proposal Wins Majority Backing, Ronald Orol, The Street 

• Click here for more links to recent news articles and interviews at Arjuna Capital

SOCIAL FINANCE'S WORK

• $100 Million Loan Program Helps Dreamers Pay For Graduate School, Anne Field, Forbes

• Job Training That's Free Until You're Hired Is a Blueprint for Biden, Steve Lohr, New York Times

• A Decade of Impact, Social Finance

• Workforce Realigned: How New Partnerships Are Advancing Economic Mobility, Social Finance

• Matter of Fact News segment on Social Finance raising money from foundations, uses it to help pay students’ tuition and training programs

• Managing the Future of Work: Social Finance: Trainers Make the Grade When Students Get Good Jobs, Social Finance 

CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY

• Can Capitalist Democracy Survive? William H. Janeway, Project Syndicate 

• A curated list of articles about the private sector role and responsibility for proactivity in areas of governance traditionally left to government - includes also original research by the High Meadows Institute. 

CAPITALISM AND TECHNOLOGY

• Who’s Calling the Shots on Data and AI? Leigh Hafrey, MIT SHASS Communications

• Internet Capitalism Pits Fast Technology Against Slow Democracy, Tom Wheeler, Brookings Institute