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When impact investing reproduces elite networks

Our impact fund talks about empowering communities but all our portfolio company CEOs went to the same three business schools and I don't know how to change this without blowing up our sourcing.

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The tension between familiar pipelines and diverse leadership exposes the institutional inertia that maintains existing power structures.

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