Jessica Freireich is a consultant at Monitor Institute, which seeks to help innovative leaders achieve sustainable solutions to social and environmental problems. Jessica is a lead author of the Institute’s recent report Investing for Social and Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry. Jessica has more than a decade of experience addressing strategic issues in a range of corporate and nonprofit contexts. She has also worked with social entrepreneurs as a portfolio manager at New Profit Inc. Jessica recently managed strategic planning for Save the Children and worked with entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka after the tsunami. Jessica holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Harvard College.
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Investing For Impact: Catalysing An Emerging Industry
Using profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental good is moving from a periphery of activist investors to the core of mainstream financial institutions. Going far beyond the negative screens of ‘socially responsible investing’, this session will explore opportunities and trends among investors that actively seek to place capital in ways that can provide a scale of solution that purely philanthropic interventions cannot reach.
