Summa & Friends

With COP 27 just around the corner, what really is sustainable development and what does the world need most right now to achieve it?Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway, and...

2 Nov 202238min

Having taken over the helm of the family business, LGT, in 2006, H.S.H. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein founded LGT Venture Philanthropy in 2007 and subsequently Lightrock, a pioneering impact inv...

12 Okt 202226min

They say be the change you want to see in the world. And one year ago, Tariq Fancy, a former Wall Street investor turned nonprofit founder, wrote an essay sharing how he had gone from evangelizing sus...

21 Sep 202250min

Conscious capitalism is the new way of doing business. But how can it create better leaders, better business, and a better world?In this episode of Summa & Friends, founding member and global leader o...

7 Sep 202253min

Summa Equity has multiple points of differentiation from other private equity firms, not least in that they deliver great returns in a sustainable way, powered by the right cultural values. But what a...

24 Aug 202242min

Righting everything that’s going wrong in the world isn’t one person’s responsibility, says Harvard Business School Professor, George Serafeim, the rockstar of ESG. We all have a responsibility to try...

27 Jul 202249min

Private equity firms aren’t renowned for helping solve some of society’s most pressing problems: extreme weather events, acute food and water insecurity, biodiversity loss, and economic and social ins...

13 Jul 202242min

Climate change, social inequality, resource inefficiency - these aren’t the problems a select few individuals face… These imminent global challenges are going to impact all of us, if we don’t act now....

13 Jul 202233min