Our mission is to provide both the scholarly community as well as investment organizations and their leadership research-based knowledge to make meaningful contributions to a sustainable society and mobilize our expertise and research to help us get there. We focus on interdisciplinary, collaborative, and impactful research, and be recognized as a thought leader in research on long-term and sustainable business practices in and around investment organizations.
Impact & Investing Hub
Our projects
Research Projects
We collaborate with institutional investors, non-governmental organizations and governments to advance knowledge about how businesses and societal stakeholders can meaningfully contribute to the most pressing social, ecological and ethical challenges of our time.
The possible transformations of ways of working, doing business and investing have far-reaching consequences. However, the actual implementations so far have led to limited changes in decision-making, investment allocations, or the proportion of impact investments.
These transformations are covered by our research themes:
- Evolution of sustainability transformation
- Investment models of institutional investors
- (Financial) decision-making by boards
- Revenue models in the financial sector
- Development of organizational models, management structures, and leadership in the financial sector
The political and regulatory uncertainties accompanying these transformations, limiting board culture and behavior, and a financial and investment sector that is just beginning to understand how to capitalize on these transformations; together they form hurdles that society need to overcome. Therefore, our projects are driven by a collaborative spirit aimed at advancing research, as well as overcoming these hurdles to generate practical impact.
We closely cooperate with private and public organizations and institutions, in our research as well as our teaching. This keeps us at the forefront of business and management practice. Our students thereby gain strategic and organizational insight and can use their leadership skills to design and implement optimal business choices and investment strategies.