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The Minority Market in Private Equity and Italian SMEs
The minority market is attracting the attention of the world of institutional investors in various fields: private equity funds, family offices, club deals, and public investors. A study conducted by the Private Equity & Growth Finance Observatory of the SDA Bocconi analyzed: the long-term dimension of minority investments; the characteristics of target companies and investors; the growth strategies ...
The Creation of Value through Sustainable Debt Instruments
Sustainable debt instruments, and in particular green bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and green loans, represent an innovative, constantly-growing solution to finance business activities and projects. These instruments are characterized by the possible presence of the so-called greenium, the negative premium that debt subscribers are willing to pay the issues for those instruments. Although the ...
Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and ESG Ratings in Italian SMEs
A study conducted on 10,000 Italian SMEs shows that issues such as climate change and the transition toward a more sustainable economy are still little present in the business world in our country. Only one of three companies is worried about the effects on their business model of climate change, and one of five about the consequences of a transition toward a more sustainable economy. Of the sample ...
Carbon Prices and Markets: The Solution to Climate Change?
To incentivize the energy transition, a growing number of governments throughout the world are implementing market-based mechanisms, for instance involving carbon prices and markets. These mechanisms, in which companies make voluntary commitments, have seen enormous growth in the last two years. Companies begin to perceive decarbonization not only as a threat, but also as an opportunity. The energy ...
Work Hard and Have Fun … in an Amazon Warehouse
Inside Amazon warehouses, technological progress, and the managerial techniques related to it, aim to track every movement of workers, measuring and regulating all of their movements. The growing preponderance of digital mechanisms that are nourished by workers means that the warehouse desires not only work, but also data. The software systems underlying inventory and order fulfillment must continuously ...
ESG Rating and Credit: How to Assess Integrated Risk
A sustainability rating, or ESG rating, represents an appropriate integration of the information on business risk deriving from the more consolidated credit rating. An integrated approach that involves a joint assessment of the financial solidity of a company (credit rating) and its sustainability (or solidity of the business model), allows for innovating risk management activity by making it more ...
Accelerating the Transition: Financial Services Must Also Do Their Part
In the last two years, the increase of social disturbances, the growing attention to climate change, and the need to act on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, has attracted attention from companies in all sectors. Financial services companies are also called on to catalyze and accelerate the transition toward a new economy, based on ecosystems that satisfy the needs of all stakeholders. ...
The Impact of Sustainability on the Cost of Capital
The concept of creation of value has recently taken on a new feature, the sharing of value for all of the stakeholders involved. In order for this to occur, it is necessary for business strategies and models to be structured and managed in an amply sustainable vision in environmental, social, cultural, and ethical terms. Companies that are associated with high ESG performance have easier access to ...
Sustainable Finance. Why It Has to Change
In the focus of this issue of Economia&Management , some colleagues from the REPAiR present studies and analyses on the future of finance, developed in the context of the new laboratory at the SDA Bocconi.
The New Logics and Growth Trajectories of Powered Advertising
The communicative potential offered by new technologies has profoundly modified the marketing tools in the hands of advertisers. “Powered advertising” indicates a new model of advertising based on new digital technologies and data. “Powered advertising” offers significant advantages with respect to traditional advertising strategies, as it offers a means of advertising that is measurable and ...