Wednesday 10 December 2008

Sustainable Finance

Today's lecture was hold by a PhD. student. But actually, she was better than the teacher, I thought because of English wise and knowledge of student's attitudes.

It was kind of a presentation in Business English class. Someone complained that she told only knowleage in the paper for the lecture, but for me, it was interesting.

The way to evaluate social investment:
*avoidance screening(negative screening)
*positive screening(choose best in industry, or bench mark)
(these are done by questionaires and talks)

The influence of shareholders:
*amplify external pressure on corporations
*legitimize CSR in the corporation
*take part in shaping norms about CSR overtime

I thought, CSR is a product for social investment.



And from the paper that the teacher presented us, I learned "system view"
That is the way to think sustaibability, social value in long term.

1. To understand the source of change
2. To predict the effect of the source to each external factor
3. To integrate each factor and imagine interaction between them

Sustainability is most difficult problem we have ever seen, I felt. But it means it is most interesting object at the same time.

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