Ronald Cohen Books

The book presents valuable information and insights from the perspective of an experienced historian. It delves into historical themes and contexts, providing a thoughtful analysis that enriches the reader's understanding. Cohen's expertise shines through, making it a significant contribution to the field of history.

A unique insider's guide to turning risk into opportunity

The Impact Revolution is a movement in which we all play a part. It introduces a simple change, but one that has enormous ramifications for our world: the incorporation of impact - impact on our society and our environment - into the way we think, act and make decisions. It is a change that has already begun, and one that permeates all elements of our society. All of us – business leaders, employees, pension savers, investors, entrepreneurs, governments, philanthropists, consumers, citizens – will place impact at the core of our decisions and actions, to create a world that works. A world of sustainable shared prosperity, and of social and environmental progress. ‘On Impact’ is written by Sir Ronald Cohen, one of the founders of impact investing, but the story of the Impact Revolution will be written by you.

As one of the founders of venture capital, which ushered in the Tech Revolution, Sir Ronald Cohen builds on his years of personal experience in IMPACT to deliver a compelling account of how impact investing is reshaping capitalism.

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degredation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of the geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimonok, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.

Der Kapitalismus steht im Fadenkreuz scharfer Kritik: wachsende soziale Ungleichheit, gravierende ökologische Probleme … Immer deutlicher zeigt sich: Ein „Weiter so“ kann es nicht geben. Doch es gibt ein überzeugendes, innovatives Konzept: „Impact Investing“, entwickelt und weltweit bekannt gemacht von Sir Ronald Cohen. Die Kernforderung lautet: Investments müssen neben einer positiven finanziellen Rendite auch positive Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt und die Gesellschaft haben. Cohen erklärt in „Impact“, wie der Kapitalismus verändert und der private Sektor von einem Umweltverschmutzer und Förderer der Ungleichheit in eine wirkmächtige Kraft für das Gute verwandelt werden kann. Chancen gerechter verteilen, Lösungen für die großen sozialen und ökologischen Herausforderungen finden: „Impact“ zeigt uns, welche Rolle wir bei dieser Revolution spielen können.