[#dataviz] Entrepreneurs: have you heard of the "ESG Debt"?

The EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship and EDHEC Entrepreneurs are very committed in the challenges of sustainability in entrepreneurship.

According to a 2022 EDHEC/Station F study, while 9 out of 10 startups are ready to make a clear commitment to ESG practices, 75% of them face difficulties in taking action. One of the obstacles is the ‘ESG debt’, but this is not inevitable: EDHEC's entrepreneurial eco-system has developped a holistic method called ‘Responsible Entrepreneurship by Design’ (RED), enabling startups to integrate economic, social and environmental performance issues into the heart of their model.

Below are a few illustrations of the key points of this approach.

• Find out more about the Guide to Responsibility in Startups (RED method) : https://startup-guide-responsibility.edhec.edu/

• Browse the articles published in EDHEC Vox / Harvard Business Review France : What is the ESG debt of startups, this "invisible weight"? (Dec. 2023) - Startup with a mission: navigating with a strategic compass from the outset (June 2024)

• To access the 2022 ‘Startups and responsible entrepreneurship’ study (in French) : follow this link

• Find out more about the EDHEC Centre for Responsible Entrepreneurship and EDHEC Entrepreneurs

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