… A global leader in the insurance and asset management business, AXA had risen to the top ranks in terms of corporate responsibility (CR) as well. … French-based insurer led the industry on a number of corporate social responsibility and sustainability indexes. Not content to rest on these laurels, AXA transferred its CR team … the business. AXA’s business had grown rapidly over the previous decades. The company was formed in the 1980s through the merger of a few mid-sized French insurance firms. From the …
… founding partner of Blue Wolf Capital Management in New York. “What we’re looking for is something that has a solid business at its core, but that has enough other extraneous problems that most people at a … and it had put the mill up for sale. Due diligence suggested that the mill had a good core business. The mill also presented some significant problems: financial, …
… slums by February 2013. Furthermore, the project team hoped to develop research from the effort to create a model that could be used by other communities, completing the research in … urban poor. The project incorporated multiple unique approaches, hoping to create a model for facilities and community education that other locations could adapt for their communities. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project …
… Diane Strauss, Program Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, joins Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Research Assistant Laura Brush to discuss the Initiative's … innovation in sustainable finance. Diane describes the challenges companies face related to sustainability demands of investors, environment, social, and governance (ESG) …