Impact Measurement & Management

While some may cringe when we bring up “theory of change” or “logic model,” we find that it’s often the secret ingredient for driving impact … when used to its full potential! In this video in our Impact Explained series, we give three pieces of advice to use this powerful tool to identify and test […]

While our first-year MBAs are drinking from the fire hose their first few months at Fuqua, we still find ways to engage them in timely topics and discussions across the impact economy – including through our Rising Impact Leader workshop series.  Here we share some of our reflections from a great discussion in October 2024 […]

November 2023 https://centers.fuqua.duke.edu/case/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2023/11/BlueMark-CASE-Field-Guide-2023-FINAL.pdf About the Guide: “A Field Guide: Impact Due Diligence and Management for Asset Allocators” aims to drive more rigor and consistency in how asset allocators evaluate and manage private market funds that invest for positive impacts on people and the planet. Developed in 2023 through interviews with 50+ Limited Partners (LPs) and […]

CASE Faculty Director Cathy Clark shared this keynote address in September 2023 at the Impact Measurement and Management Summit: Time to Act in Türkiye

CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project is one of the largest disclosure systems centered around climate change, water security and deforestation. Disclosing entities can use this data to make better informed climate, water and deforestation decisions, while the CDP can inform the general public about levels of global progress being made on critical climate issues.  This […]

CSRD – Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is a mandatory framework for making company sustainability reporting more common and standardized in the European Union. It is an update and replacement for the 2018 Non-Financial Reporting Directive. The first set of CSRD standards will go into effect throughout the European Union in 2023.  This Brief contains straightforward […]

Gratitude Railroad hosted a conversation with industry experts, fund managers, and academics – including CASE’s Cathy Clark – to discuss challenges, best practices, and frameworks for IMM. https://gratituderailroad.com/best-practices-challenges-and-frameworks-for-measuring-and-managing-impact/ March 2022

Aspire Impact in India hosted this Impact Masterclass in 2021 with Cathy Clark speaking about goals, impact assessment, stakeholder materiality, and other issues facing organizations striving to achieve impact. Cathy Clark December 14, 2021

This video explains the fundamental and universal steps a company or investor must take to manage impact on people and planet. This video is published in our publicly available Coursera course, Impact Measurement and Management for the Sustainable Development Goals.