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Program Experience
Highlights and Key Outcomes
In Impact, Value, and the Materiality of Sustainability, you will:
- Demonstrate mastery of topics such as climate-risk governance, competitive sustainability strategies, geopolitical scenario planning, and data analytics
- Understand how to create long-term sustainable value while achieving stakeholder harmony
- Understand their role as stewards for environmental and societal change
- Feel empowered to drive positive change in your organization
- Explore real-life, practical examples of responsible investment in practice
- Be part of a global network of peers and continue to share best practices in the changing landscape of responsible investment
Experience and Impact
This course is a nine-week live online program complemented with asynchronous materials.
The program consists of a mixture of engaging live online sessions. Learners will be expected to complete between one to two hours of independent study outside of this time, assigned to them by the course leaders.
Within the live sessions, participants will enjoy a mixture of leading academic speakers, panels with industry experts, interactive exercises, and scenario analyses.
Module 1: Responsible Investment: Evolution, Implementation, and Future Perspectives
- ESG integration
- History of the movement
- ESG backlash
Module 2: Purpose and Financial Performance
- Challenges and opportunities of creating a purpose-driven company
- Decisions, employee engagement, and stakeholder management
- Relationship between purpose, financial performance, and corporate strategy
Module 3: Governance of Socio-Political
- Role of governance in addressing social and political challenges
- ESG framework integration for boards
- Responding to non-market risk
- Responsible political engagement and aligned social and political strategy
Module 4: Climate Transition
- Why climate change is important to business leaders
- Smooth transition to a net-zero economy
- Climate-related financial disclosure regimes globally
Module 5: Strategy, Environmental Sustainability, and Geostrategy
- Creating competitive advantage through sustainability efforts
- Potential geopolitical scenarios for 2030 and implication for investors, senior leaders, and strategists
- Develop your own geostrategy
Module 6: Carbon Pricing and Climate Risk
- Corporate strategies to reduce exposure to climate risk
- Carbon markets
- Climate-risk strategy in energy, transportation, and real estate sectors
Module 7: Measuring Value and Impact
- How and where good and gold may not live well together
- Investment style and investor perspective
- Measurement tools and strategies
Module 8: Stakeholder and Shareholder Activism
- Latest trends in shareholder and stakeholder activism
- Patterns in types of issues demanded in activist campaigns
- Tactics for response to activism and activist engagement
Due to our application review period, applications submitted after 12:00 p.m. ET on Friday for programs beginning the following Monday may not be processed in time to grant admission. Applicants will be contacted by a member of our Client Relations Team to discuss options for future programs and dates.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for:
- Senior investment professionals
- Corporate leaders (C-suite leaders, vice presidents, board members)
- Strategists and consultants
Faculty
Witold Henisz, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Academic Director
Vice Dean and Faculty Director, Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative; Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management in Honor of Russell E. Palmer, former Managing Partner
Research Interests: Political and social risk management; project management; ESG integration; stakeholder engagement
Emilie Feldman, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Michael L. Tarnopol Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Corporate governance, corporate strategy, diversification, divestitures, firm scope, spinoffs, mergers and acquisitions
Claudine Gartenberg, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Research Interests: Corporate strategy; organizational strategy; firm scope; motivation; corporate governance; compensation and pay inequality; corporate purpose
Christopher Geczy, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Adjunct Professor of Finance; Academic Director, Wharton Wealth Management Initiative; Academic Director, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research, The Wharton School
Mirko Heinle, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Accounting, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Theoretical research in financial and managerial accounting
Sarah Light, JDSee Faculty Bio
Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics; Faculty Co-Director, Wharton Climate Center
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, JD, PhDSee Faculty Bio
Bantwal Family Goldman Sachs Presidential Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Organizational theory (political sociology, institutional theory); nonmarket strategy; corporate governance; corporate misconduct and punishment
Nicolaj Siggelkow, PhDSee Faculty Bio
David M. Knott Professor; Professor of Management; Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School
Research Interests: Competitive strategy, firms as systems of interconnected choices
