Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil

Julie Battilana; Marissa Kimsey; Falko Paetzold

Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil

Julie Battilana
, Marissa Kimsey
, Falko Paetzold

Publication: Teaching material › Lecture notes/Article in lecture notes/Teaching resources

Abstract

This teaching note provides conceptual foundations and teaching plan recommendations for the case on Vox Capital, a firm that launched one of the first impact investing funds in Brazil. The learning objectives are to understand how an impact investing fund operates (here a venture capital fund seeking both financial and social returns) and to understand how an impact investing firm can organize itself internally to balance its financial and social objectives over time.

Original language	English
Project No.	419-087
Applicant	Harvard Business School
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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