Yesterday

BrandBastion Mixes AI and Human Judgment to Build Trust at Scale

Jenny Wolfram founded BrandBastion to help companies manage the risks of social media by combining AI with human moderation. She joins HBS professor Julian De Freitas and BrandBastion’s Head of Operations and Finance, Vesa Rikkinen, to discuss how this hybrid model builds trust w ... Show More

26m 32s

Nov 11

Apollo Global Management’s Business Model Transformation

Apollo Global Management has transformed itself from a traditional private equity giant into an insurance-fueled credit powerhouse—thanks to its acquisition of life annuity issuer Athene. CEO Marc Rowan makes a bold bet that an asset-heavy model, which is backed by hundreds of bi ... Show More

29m 16s

Oct 28

Inside India’s Energy Transition: Tata Power’s Net Zero Strategy

Tata Power stood at the forefront of India’s energy transition. The firm’s long history was deeply intertwined with the country's development. As Mumbai’s power needs increased, Tata Power built out thermal assets across India, and while thermal power generation remained Tata Pow ... Show More

36m 17s

May 2019

Why It’s Time to Finally Worry about ESG

Robert Eccles, a visiting professor of management practice at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, says that the global investment community's interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues has finally reached a tipping point. Large asset management f ... Show More

25m 33s

Feb 2022

Inside Companies that Get the Purpose-Profit Balance Right

Purpose has become a corporate buzzword over the past decade. Leaders are embracing the idea that companies can’t just do well financially; they also have to do good for society. But how many organizations are really walking the talk? Ranjay Gulati, professor at Harvard Business ... Show More

28m 5s

Aug 2023

The VC Fund Closing Equity Gaps — and Making Money

Much of the business world has bought into the idea of stakeholder capitalism. But Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor say that doing some good by doing well isn’t enough when the business impact still creates negative effects and broader disparities overall. Freada, with a backgr ... Show More

26m 40s

Jan 2024

Larry Fink Talks BlackRock Earnings and the Future of Investing

BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink discusses the firm's fourth-quarter earnings report, moving into ETFs and the impact of politics on investing. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

13m 9s

Nov 2023

Corporate Governance Can Be a Growth Strategy

Jorge Quintanilla Nielsen started the private asset management firm Capital SAFI in 2007 — and planned to expand from Bolivia across South America. As a private firm, Capital SAFI isn’t required to have a board, but he knew that governance would be one of the main aspects potenti ... Show More

30m 19s

Apr 2023

Social Business Needs a Net Zero

<p>Companies and banks have often pursued social goals such as financial inclusion as an obligation rather than a business opportunity. Douglas Beal, who leads BCG’s client work with financial institutions on sustainable finance and investing, argues that doing good is also good ... Show More

21m 21s

Jun 2022

ESG and the future of sustainability

This episode features Osler’s Andrew MacDougall, partner, Corporate, in conversation with Michael Torrance, Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of BMO Financial Group, about the importance of ESG to sustainability and corporate responsibility. ESG reinforces the idea ... Show More

50m 39s

Mar 2022

Is sustainable finance just greenwash?

ESG funds - which claim to promote environmental, social and corporate governance best practice - are all the rage. But are investors being taken for an expensive ride?Ed Butler speaks to one man with his doubts - Tariq Fancy, who used to be in charge of sustainability investing ... Show More

17m 27s

Aug 2020

Burton Malkiel: 'I Am Not a Big Fan of ESG Investing'

<p>Our guest this week is Dr. Burton Malkiel. Dr. Malkiel is the Chemical Bank chairman's professor of economics at Princeton University. And he's also author of the widely influential investment book, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." He's also the Chief Investment Officer at We ... Show More

58m 1s

Jan 2020

Everything Is ESG Now

In his annual letter to CEOs earlier this month, BlackRock's Larry Fink pushed business leaders to prioritize climate change as a "defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects." For its part, BlackRock will double the number of sustainable ETFs it offers and pressure index p ... Show More

40m 48s

Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose...