Scaling Impact

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The global challenges confronting us — climate change, poverty, inequality, and many others — can feel overwhelming. Those of us who believe in market-based solutions to these challenges get even more disheartened when we regularly see our existing capitalist system failing us, often causing more harm than good. Many examples show how the capitalist tools of finance and investment can and make real, positive impact. Approaches like blended finance and impact investing can help accelerate progress against the world’s biggest remaining collective challenges.  Yet use of these improved capitalist approaches remains far too subscale. Blended finance and impact investing remain 15 to 200 times smaller than traditional approaches to finance and investment.  How can we continue to make capitalism work better by scaling these approaches and others? This book looks at how we can start making these necessary changes using strategies, structures, and practices that take advantage of capitalism's strengths. Its goal is to demonstrate how a reimagined financial system can be more inclusive and accountable to all. By shifting away from extractive, short-term practices in the name of shareholder primacy, we can move toward a system that values the role of all stakeholders

Kusisami (Kusi) Hornberger is a Partner based in the Washington, DC office of Dalberg Global Development Advisors. In addition to serving as Dalberg’s Global Knowledge Lead, Kusi also co-leads Dalberg’s Finance & Investment Practice and is particularly passionate about the use of innovative finance and technology to accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Kusi’s recent work includes various projects at the intersection of impact investing/blended finance and agriculture, global health, and the financial services sectors.  Kusi is also a recognized thought leader and has led the development of several major market research reports on impact investing and blended finance. 

The global challenges confronting us — climate change, poverty, inequality, and many others — can feel overwhelming. Those of us who believe in market-based solutions to these challenges get even more disheartened when we regularly see our existing capitalist system failing us, often causing more harm than good. Many examples show how the capitalist tools of finance and investment can and make real, positive impact. Approaches like blended finance and impact investing can help accelerate progress against the world’s biggest remaining collective challenges.  Yet use of these improved capitalist approaches remains far too subscale. Blended finance and impact investing remain 15 to 200 times smaller than traditional approaches to finance and investment.  How can we continue to make capitalism work better by scaling these approaches and others? This book looks at how we can start making these necessary changes using strategies, structures, and practices that take advantage ofcapitalism's strengths. Its goal is to demonstrate how a reimagined financial system can be more inclusive and accountable to all. By shifting away from extractive, short-term practices in the name of shareholder primacy, we can move toward a system that values the role of all stakeholders.

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“This ‘wonderfully positive’ book about innovations in investment and finance is as ‘must-read’ for anyone working in impact investing, according to Christopher Walker. … This is a book everyone in impact investing should read. … As such this is a wonderfully positive book. … there is a lot of wisdom and experience in this book.” (Christopher Walker, impact Investor, impact-investor.com, May 5, 2023)
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“This book is for anyone interested in shifting the status quo about how capital can work for impact. It is filled with personal insights and concrete examples that anyone interested in impact investing or blended finance can learn from and use.” (Cathy Clark, Faculty Director, CASE and CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing, Duke University) 
 “A worth-while read for investors interested in exploring ways to make private equity and venture capital work as a force for good in a rapidly changing and turbulent world.” (Claudia Zeisberger, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise and Founder of the Global Private Equity Initiative at INSEAD School of Business) 
 “Market-based solutions for some of the world’s biggest challenges can be successful only if the industry embraces big thinking and moral imagination. Kusi Hornberger offers a compelling roadmap on how to reconstruct capitalism to center impact,people, and planet.” (Jacqueline Novogratz, bestselling author of The Blue Sweater and Manifesto for a Moral Revolution)
“Kusi has done a terrific job defining and distilling the pathways for how capital can be invested for impact. Anyone interested in impact investing or social entrepreneurship will find this an insightful and practical source of ideas and examples on how to do it.” (Brian L. Trelstad, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School and Partner and Board Member at Bridges Fund Management) 
“I hope anyone interested in entrepreneurship picks up this book and reads it. The book is filled with thought-provoking insights on how to rethink the way traditional investment approaches can work toward the betterment of founders’ needs.” (Brian Requarth, Co-Founder of Latitud and bestselling author of Viva the Entrepreneur)
“Filled with personal anecdotes and thought-provoking perspectives, Kusi has written an exceptional book relevant for anyone interested in learning more about innovative finance and impact investing.” (Aunnie Patton Power, Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Author of Adventure Finance)
“A must read for anyone interested in finance, technology, and sustainable development. Kusi shares insights from his two decades of hands-on experience on how to make finance and investment work for a better world.” (Dr. Santitarn Sathirathai, Group Chief Economist, Sea ltd)
“Re-channeling financial flows from dirty to clean is the key to tackling climate change. There’s no way around it. Kusi Hornberger provides a step-by-step guide in doing just that: how and why governments, companies, and the rest of us as individual investors, consumers, and voters need to focus on this all-important lever to punch well above our individual weights.” (Gernot Wagner, Senior Lecturer at Columbia Business School and author of Climate Shock)
“Brings refreshing clarity and new perspectives to the challenges of investing for impact. Full of great insights built on real-world experience which can be put to good use by investors and DFI staff alike.” (Neil Gregory, Former Chief Thought Leadership Officer, International Finance Corporation)
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