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Social Value Investing
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Social Value Investing

A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships

Howard W. Buffett and William Eimicke
Columbia UP, 2018

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Applicable
  • Well Structured

Recommendation

The time is ripe for cross-sector partnerships that bring together businesses, governments and nonprofits to solve thorny social problems. So say professors Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke in this incisive look at how “social value investing” unites private-sector metrics and procedures with public-sector projects and goals. The authors lay out detailed studies of successful examples that include India’s introduction of crime-proof identity cards and the rescue of New York City’s Central Park. Activists, students and investors will appreciate this roadmap for collaboration.

Take-Aways

  • The public sector can’t effectively manage society by itself.
  • Bureaucrats could learn from the Wall Street discipline of value investing.
  • The Digital India initiative illustrates the process-based approach to “social value investing.”

About the Authors

Howard W. Buffett is an associate professor at Columbia University. William B. Eimicke is a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. 

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