The Power of Investment Gleaning
Would loaning money to this company at less than market-rate interest be a bad investment? Many well-meaning investors are split on questions like this. Some argue that profit maximization is always the goal. More profit, more impact, right? And often that’s the line that secular impact investing keeps feeding us. A major study by the Global Impact Investing Network suggests there’s no trade-off between profit and impact.
Does that need to be our definition of success too?