Series:

Dollars and Change

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, 2022 • 30 min listen
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ESG

Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs in East Africa

August 8, 2022 • 30 min listen
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ESG

How Companies and Capital Can Be Forces for Good

June 21, 2022 • 29 min listen
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ESG

Making the Business Case for ESG

May 3, 2022 • 32 min listen
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ESG

Investing with Impact: Becoming a ‘Responsible Steward’

March 22, 2022 • 34 min listen
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Leadership

How One Firm Has Baked Purpose into Its Business Model

February 14, 2022 • 30 min listen
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ESG

The Challenge of Measuring Impact Performance

January 24, 2022 • 32 min listen
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ESG

How to Accelerate the Pace of Social Change

December 21, 2021 • 28 min listen
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ESG

Doing Capitalism Differently — One Backpack at a Time

November 29, 2021 • 31 min listen
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ESG

How a Nonprofit Is Helping Women Reach Economic Parity

October 26, 2021 • 30 min listen
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ESG

How the Pandemic Accelerated the Social Impact Movement

September 27, 2021 • 28 min listen
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ESG

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

August 26, 2021 • 33 min listen
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ESG

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

July 20, 2021 • 25 min listen
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ESG

What Will It Take to Close the Wealth Gap?

June 7, 2021 • 27 min listen
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ESG

How Impact Investing Can Relieve the Rent Burden

May 25, 2021 • 26 min listen
Glass doors of a closed Warby Parker store in Seattle with a sign indicating closure for the day. Reflections of the street are visible.
ESG

Pandemic Pivot: How Warby Parker Stayed Focused

April 26, 2021 • 28 min listen
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ESG

A ‘Small but Mighty’ VC Firm Invests in Equity

March 30, 2021 • 28 min listen
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ESG

Beyond the Business Case for Diversity: What Leaders Must Do

February 22, 2021 • 29 min listen
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ESG

The Power of People: Why Philanthropy Requires More Than Money

January 25, 2021 • 23 min listen
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ESG

Why the Growth of Impact Investing Depends on Data

December 22, 2020 • 21 min listen
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ESG

Conscious Capitalism: Giving All Stakeholders a Seat at the Table

November 23, 2020 • 29 min listen
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ESG

Bridging Social Justice and the Financial Markets

October 23, 2020 • 24 min listen
A person stands in front of a chalkboard with a drawn bar graph depicting financial growth, featuring stacks of coins and a money bag at the tallest bar.
ESG

How Gender Lens Investing Is Gaining Ground

October 2, 2020 • 20 min listen
A chalk drawing on a blackboard depicts a balance scale. On one side is a yellow dollar sign, and on the other is a red heart. A hand holds chalk near the scale, symbolizing the balance between money and love.
ESG

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

August 24, 2020 • 33 min listen
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ESG

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

July 28, 2020 • 24 min listen
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ESG

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

May 8, 2020 • 22 min listen
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ESG

Changing Communities: How to Bring Fairness into Finance

February 25, 2020 • 21 min listen