A hybrid framework for social and financial investment decisions
Name
1003321855-MIT.pdf
Description
Full printable version
Size
3.04 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum (MD5)
04ef0755801429a1c59fe9b0b4790f86
Author(s)
Dias Carneiro, Carlos Henrique
Advisor(s)
Xavier Giroud.
Date Issued
2017
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Corporate managers need to constantly weight the interests of the firm's stakeholders (financers, employees, consumers) when making investment decisions. In recent years there have been growing preference from such stakeholders to address, with personal resources, the various market failures that lead to the unsustainable depletion of natural resources and degradation of social outcomes. To accommodate for these preferences, this study proposes a theoretical framework to be used by such managers to inform their investment decision making. It incorporates discussion on the motivations for managers to embrace such change in mindset. As well as it proposes a framework, to compare investment decisions quantitatively. The framework discusses incorporates discussion on how to generate financial value from initiatives that directly improve environmental sustainability and social outcomes. As well as it incorporates discussion on how to incorporate, into those financial investment decisions, measures of environmental and social externalities created by individual investments.
Description
Thesis: S.M. in Business Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2017.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).
Subjects
Sloan School of Management.
MIT Department
Sloan School of Management
Terms of Use
MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
Persistent DSpace Link
