Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
KEDGE Business School - Marseille campus
Course Title:
Ethical Finance
Course Number:
KBA-B3-MKT-902-E-L-BDX
Course Description:
The ongoing economic, social and environmental crisis has revealed the need to redefine the function of finance. Academic finance bears significant responsibility in this process addressing the interaction between finance and society. As a response, many private actors have broadened their definition of ‘ethics’ in order to include environmental and social elements into their management and asset allocation practices. The pedagogical objective of this class is to confront standard corporate finance assumptions against the specificities of ethical finance practices, and to propose relevant approaches for the successful implementation of social criteria in financial decisions. Students following this course will develop an awareness of the developments and crisis of current financial system that paved the way for increasing social responsibility in financial practices; and master a set of specific techniques for the Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) rating of firms. They will be equipped with a battery of specific methods allowing
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
