Generation Investment Management

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Case

Reference no. 9-613-002

Subject category: Strategy and General Management

Authors: Sandra J Sucher (Harvard Business School); Matthew Preble (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 2012

Version: 6 July 2012

Length: 26 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Business ethics; Accountability; Foreign investments; Advertising; Social well being; Economies of scale; Soil pollution; Energy; Investment management; Investments; Pollution; Environmental sustainability; Leadership; Sustainability; Demographics; Developing countries; Finance

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Abstract

Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a ‘sustainable’ or socially responsible investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and US Vice President AI Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide whether to recommend an investment in ABB India. The decision pits economic development-supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage-caused by the use of coal-fired power plants.

Locations:

India; United Kingdom

Industries:

Finance & insurance; Nuclear power generation

Other setting(s):

2008