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ESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
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ESG: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Robert G. Eccles, Mark R. Kramer, Lily Zheng, Andrew Winston
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
3h 6m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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4 PRIVATE EQUITY SHOULD TAKE THE LEAD IN SUSTAINABILITY

by Robert G. Eccles, Vinay Shandal, David Young, and Bénédicte Montgomery

Despite their reputation in the 1980s as corporate raiders, most private equity (PE) firms attempt to improve the performance of their portfolio companies through better corporate governance. Historically their business model has been to create value by sharpening the focus and oversight of largely ignored business units inside conglomerates or poorly managed private companies, such as dysfunctional family-run businesses. But although the G in “environmental, social, and governance” has been important in the PE industry from the outset, the E and the S have been virtually nonexistent. The industry has been content ...

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