Tag: "Social Capital"

Clinton Global Initiative: Impact Investing & the God Particle

| September 24, 2011 | Comments (19)
Clinton Global Initiative: Impact Investing & the God Particle

Professor Marvel attended the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting this week in New York City. I know this because he contacted me out of the blue via Twitter. He read my previous post in Good Business International, “The Wizards of Impact Investing” and, true to his reputation, somehow conjured up an invitation to the gathering of “global elite.”

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SOCAP: Zen and the Art of Impact Investing

| September 12, 2011 | Comments (23)
SOCAP: Zen and the Art of Impact Investing

At SOCAP, there were a number of expensive Wall St. suits combing the sights. Maybe they read the recent Forbes article on impact investing and headed west to learn more about this new trillion-dollar market. To my biased eyes, some of them looked a little like Draco Malfoy with tight faces that hinted at some kind of profound inner conflict: do I stay fixed to the path of Mom and Dad and the other Death Eaters or sit down to a hookah with Ronald Weasley?

I could of course be wrong; they may just have been dissatisfied with the vegan lunch offerings and hungering after medium rare steak.

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