In Search of a D-ESG Framework for Emerging Markets: What about Environment?

Lourdes Casanova will discuss the expanded ESG framework, highlighting how sustainable growth in emerging economies requires aligning development, environmental, social, and governance goals within corporate and policy strategies.

Speaker: Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer of Management at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Business, Cornell University

Paper Abstract: “The Imperative of Growth: A D-ESG Framework” proposes an expanded ESG perspective integrating Development as a central dimension. The framework highlights how sustainable growth in emerging economies requires aligning development, environmental, social, and governance goals within corporate and policy strategies. The discussion connects to our shared work on industrial policy, sustainability, and inclusive growth.

Whether attending in person or virtually, please register in advance. Room attendance is permitted for the Harvard community. The Zoom session is open to the public.

Speaker Bio: Lourdes Casanova is the co-author (with Anne Miroux) of the Emerging Market Multinationals Report (2016–2024), co-editor of From Copycats to Leaders: Innovation from Emerging Markets (Cambridge University Press), and co-author of The Era of Chinese Multinationals and Entrepreneurship and the Finance of Innovation in Emerging Markets (Elsevier). She is also the author of Global Latinas: Latin America’s Emerging Multinationals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). In addition, she serves on the Global Future Council on the Future of Economic Growth at the World Economic Forum and is a Trustee of Canning House. Read More >>

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