Dollars and Change Series

A podcast series highlighting leaders in corporate social responsibility, impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, and more. Produced by the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

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ESG

Why Employee-owned Companies Are Better at Building Worker Wealth

November 11, 202230 min listen
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ESG

Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs in East Africa

August 8, 202230 min listen
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ESG

How Companies and Capital Can Be Forces for Good

June 21, 202229 min listen
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ESG

Making the Business Case for ESG

May 3, 202232 min listen
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ESG

Investing with Impact: Becoming a ‘Responsible Steward’

March 22, 202234 min listen
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Leadership

How One Firm Has Baked Purpose into Its Business Model

February 14, 202230 min listen
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ESG

The Challenge of Measuring Impact Performance

January 24, 202232 min listen
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ESG

How to Accelerate the Pace of Social Change

December 21, 202128 min listen
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ESG

Doing Capitalism Differently — One Backpack at a Time

November 29, 202131 min listen
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ESG

How a Nonprofit Is Helping Women Reach Economic Parity

October 26, 202130 min listen
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ESG

How the Pandemic Accelerated the Social Impact Movement

September 27, 202128 min listen
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ESG

Belonging, Influence, and Prosperity: Investing in Asian American Communities

August 26, 202133 min listen
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ESG

How One App Is Making Space for All Students in Higher Ed

July 20, 202125 min listen
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ESG

What Will It Take to Close the Wealth Gap?

June 7, 202127 min listen
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ESG

How Impact Investing Can Relieve the Rent Burden

May 25, 202126 min listen
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ESG

Pandemic Pivot: How Warby Parker Stayed Focused

April 26, 202128 min listen
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ESG

A ‘Small but Mighty’ VC Firm Invests in Equity

March 30, 202128 min listen
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ESG

Beyond the Business Case for Diversity: What Leaders Must Do

February 22, 202129 min listen
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ESG

The Power of People: Why Philanthropy Requires More Than Money

January 25, 202123 min listen
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ESG

Why the Growth of Impact Investing Depends on Data

December 22, 202021 min listen
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ESG

Conscious Capitalism: Giving All Stakeholders a Seat at the Table

November 23, 202029 min listen
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ESG

Bridging Social Justice and the Financial Markets

October 23, 202024 min listen
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ESG

How Gender Lens Investing Is Gaining Ground

October 2, 202020 min listen
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ESG

Advancing Economic Justice: How the Ford Foundation Is Investing in Diversity

August 24, 202033 min listen
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ESG

Investing in ‘Rockstars’: How One Fund Is Building Businesses with Women of Color

July 28, 202024 min listen
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ESG

Help Where It’s Needed: How Grass Roots Organizations Are Making a Difference

May 8, 202022 min listen
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ESG

Changing Communities: How to Bring Fairness into Finance

February 25, 202021 min listen