Criterion Institute Podcast: Finance & Social Change

#006: Why the Future Matters in Finance

In this episode, we’ll revisit a conversation Joy had with two amazing leaders in the field of sustainable finance back in September of 2021.

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#005: Imagining Alternative Futures and Contingencies

In this episode, we explore imagining alternative futures and thinking through the contingencies in those futures.

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#004: Designing an Investment Thesis for Gender Lens Investing

In this episode, we have two segments that we're going to weave together both focused on investment theses. At Criterion, one of the most important levers of change, in our opinion, is to look at shaping, reshaping and creating the investment theses.

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#003: Bringing Financial Imagination to the Afghanistan Crisis

In this episode, Joy has a conversation with a colleague, Pablo Freund, who spent several months looking in depth at economic sanctions and investments tied to the realities in Afghanistan at the end of 2021, into the early part of 2022.

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#002: Checking Our Power in the Work of Building Fields

In this episode, we’re going to look at some of the power dynamics in field building organizations. Think of the sociology, the medical profession or gender lens investing as fields.

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#001: Fix the Capital, Not the Company. Part One.

In this episode, Joy weaves together three segments around one core idea: “how do we design investment vehicles that work for the context in which they're investing?”.

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#000: Welcome, Here’s What You Can Expect from this Podcast

We invite you to join us on a journey—an audio journey, to explore and expand how to use finance and investments as tools for transformative and equitable change in the world.

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