Business Schools Respond to a Flood of Interest in E.S.G.
Summary
Helen Pradas-Page, the head of the banking and investment sector at Acre, a sustainability recruitment firm with offices in the United States and Europe, said that about 70 percent of the sustainable finance roles her firm filled over the last three years were newly created roles. The company said in June that it would create 100,000 new positions over the next five years, many of which are focused on climate change risks and sustainability. challenges to meet the demand that exists,” Richard Oldfield, PwC’s global markets leader, said. (That figure does not include students who took sustainability-focused roles at big companies where the primary focus is not social impact.) Many students graduate from business school — where tuition alone can cost more than $150,000 for two years — with high levels of debt and are eager to pay it off quickly.