Private Equity Sustainability Practicum
Creating Financial Value Through Sustainability in Private Markets
It was a pleasure to see you at our event on creating financial value through sustainability. My deep thanks to our sponsors, co-hosts, panelists and moderators for their engagement, insights, and commitment to sustainability! My gratitude as well to ADL, BSR, and Fulcrum, and the PE firms that worked with them on case studies using our GP sustainability value creation tool to pilot and learn from!
ADL and Fulcrum have expressed their willingness to take on 1-2 more pro bono clients each to pilot the tool. If you are interested in that opportunity, please reach out to me at twhelan@stern.nyu.edu and I will be glad to make an introduction.
Following are a few resources to help you proceed with embedding strategic value creation into sustainability strategies:
- Asynchronous course for portfolio companies on how to embed sustainability into business strategy
- The GP sustainability value driver tool, for GPs to evaluate and prioritize the sustainability levers potential for value creation during due diligence and the 100-day holding period.
- The Return on Sustainability Investment Framework open-source tools and cases, generic and in agriculture, apparel and healthcare (automotive, real estate and energy in development).
- The LP sustainability value creation tool is under development and we are looking for partners to pilot it. Please reach out to me if of interest at twhelan@stern.nyu.edu
- The UNPRI initiative on sustainability-linked value creation in PE. If you have not done so already, sign up to be included in the effort at this link.
- We also offer bespoke trainings in ROSI for GPs and portcos as well as direct work on helping to undertake ROSI cases with portcos or help design ROSI KPIs and tools for specific funds, if of interest, please reach out to Chisara Ehiemere at ce2198@stern.nyu.edu
- Finally, I attach my slides, the EDCI slides, KKR’s slides and the UNPRI slides for your use and edification! Also sharing the photo gallery from the event.
All the best for a wonderful holiday season and sustainability value creation now and in the future.
Tensie Whelan
Distinguished Professor of Practice, Founding Director
NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business