The billionaire borrowers: private equity and leverage buyouts -- From "gaga" to google : the shepherds of business from infancy to infamous : venture capital and entrepreneurship -- The billion dollar brokers of investment banking -- The million dollar analysis of management consulting --...

After a boom and bust cycle in the early 2010s, venture capital (VC) investments are, once again, flowing towards green businesses. In this paper, we use Crunchbase data on 150,000 US startups founded between 2000 and 2020 to better understand why VC initially did not prove successful in funding...

Michael Migendt explains the role of alternative investments in supporting the growth of a sustainable economy and recognizes levers that policy makers, managers and entrepreneurs could use for further accelerating green innovation through finance. He focuses on specific examples of alternative...