Erika Karp is founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital, a firm focused on sustainable finance. She was previously managing director and head of global sector research at UBS Investment Bank. Karp is an advisor to the UN Global Compact’s LEAD Board Development Program, founding board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, member of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital, and advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative’s market-based approaches track. She has been named among the nation’s Top 50 Women in Wealth by AdvisorOne, to the GOOD 100 and Purpose Economy 100 lists, and as one of 50 “conscious capitalists” in the book Transforming Wall Street.
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Companies, and now investors, are looking to gauge long-term success by establishing higher standards around environmental, social, and governance performance for themselves a...