Your School’s frankly.green strategy will create revenue streams for green investment in emerging markets. Can you explain a bit more about this innovative crowdfunding initiative? Our new crowd investing platform, frankly.green, offers retail investors the opportunity to finance green projects and SMEs in Africa and Latin America. We bring together companies that want to go green with investors who put an emphasis on financial return and environmental protection. Crowd investing is a relatively new form of finance that allows private investors to directly finance projects, and companies that meet their personal preferences. With individual investments starting from as little as €100, frankly. green allows everyone to participate and diversify their portfolio.
remain as vibrant and as innovative as we currently are. I think it’s vital that we preserve this. Do you feel optimistic about the future of business, Business Schools, and the economy? I am hopeful about the world. It might seem like a very dangerous place to be right now, but if you look at the broader picture, things have improved over recent decades and centuries. We live longer, we are generally more affluent – not just in Europe, but also in Asia and increasingly in Africa, and we suffer fewer deaths from wars. Climate change is a huge challenge, but one I am confident we can tackle. Our right to liberty, freedom and free enterprise has also come under a lot of pressure in recent years, and not just because of Covid-19. However, I am hopeful that in the future we come back to this trajectory.
can make an individual, informed investment decision. We define green investments in terms of sustainability and environmental protection. A green investment must – directly or indirectly – have a sustainable positive impact. The frankly.green platform is managed jointly by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance and FS Impact Finance, and co-operates with GLS Bank. It is part of the International Climate Initiative and supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. What are the next steps for you as a leader and for Frankfurt School of Finance and Management? I hope that Frankfurt School of Finance & Management will continue to grow, but also that we keep our edge – that we
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Nils Stieglitz has been President and Managing Director of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management since April 2018. In 2012, he became a full Professor for Strategic Management at Frankfurt School. Three years later, he was appointed Head of the School´s management department, and in November 2017, he became Vice President Corporate Development – at which time he also joined Frankfurt School’s Executive Board. His primary research interests are strategic decision-making and organisational adaptation. His research and opinions have appeared in newspapers and other media outlets such as Business Week , Financial Times , Harvard Business Review , Neue Zuricher Zeitung , New York Times , The Economist , and Wall Street Journal .
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