Amazon Impact Bond (AIB)
Pongeluppe, 2020. White paper.
Technical Service
Below are some technical reports on which I am a co-author or have participated in their development.
Guide to the Assessment of Socio-Environmental Impact for Use in Impact Investments and Social Enterprises
Insper Metricis, 2018. Link to the Portuguese edition.
Learning from Best Practice Traps in Public Service
Accenture Research, 2018.
The Impact Investing Landscape in Latin America: Trends 2014 & 2015
ANDE, LAVCA, & LGT Impact Ventures, 2016.
ITAÚ UNIBANCO: Tapping into local knowledge to finance Brazil’s suburban entrepreneurs
Accenture Institute for High Performance, 2013.
in collaboration with Raghav Narsalay, Ryan Coffey, and Aarohi Sen.
UNICA: Equipping low-income workers with new skills, at scale
Accenture Institute for High Performance, 2013.
in collaboration with Raghav Narsalay, Ryan Coffey, and Aarohi Sen.
KLABIN: Growing the capabilities of local suppliers to ensure effective co-creation
Accenture Institute for High Performance, 2012.
in collaboration with Raghav Narsalay, Ryan Coffey, and Aarohi Sen.
High-Growth Markets: Scaling Business Innovations to Grow with the Future Middle Class
Accenture Institute for High Performance, 2012.
in collaboration with Raghav Narsalay and Ryan Coffey.News and Media
New publications, teaching cases, op-eds, interviews, and media coverage, in English and Portuguese.
- June 2026 WHYY. Lessons learned from Ida: Philadelphia must brace for next big storm, Penn researchers say.
- May 2026 EurekAlert! (AAAS). When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood.
- May 2026 Mirage News. Schuylkill's Fury: Ida's Flood Teaches City Lessons.
- May 2026 PreventionWeb (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) picks up the Penn Today story: "USA: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood." Read it
- May 2026 Phys.org. When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood.
- April 2026 Penn Today quotes me in "When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood." Read it
- March 2026 The African Mirror. HIV in Malawi: digital filing system saved lives and boosted care - research.
- March 2026 With Laura Derksen and Anita McGahan, I wrote "HIV in Malawi: digital filing system saved lives and boosted care" for The Conversation (Africa), republished by Knowledge at Wharton and allAfrica. Read it
- March 2026 Knowledge@Wharton. HIV in Malawi: digital filing system saved lives and boosted care - research.
- March 2026 allAfrica. HIV in Malawi: Digital Filing System Saved Lives and Boosted Care - Research.
- March 2026 Rotman Insights Hub. HIV in Malawi: How a digital filing system saved lives and boosted care.
- February 2026 Penn GEFLOW Lab. When Rivers Tip: Philadelphia's Warning for Urban Flood Futures.
- February 2026 New paper in npj Natural Hazards with Dingyu Xuan, M. Ani Hsieh, Mackenzie M. Weaver, Michael E. Mann, Douglas J. Jerolmack, and Hugo N. Ulloa: "Climate extremes and urbanization drive flood tipping points at the city-river interface." Read it
- January 2026 New SAGE Business Case with Sandro Cabral, Sérgio Lazzarini, and Michelle Augusto Borges: "Banco da Providência: Dilemmas over Social Impact Assessment." Read it
- January 2026 My review of Timothy Kuhn's What Do Corporations Want? Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm appears in Administrative Science Quarterly. Read it
- December 2025 EurekAlert! (AAAS). Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients.
- December 2025 News-Medical. Digital patient records improve survival in HIV treatment clinics.
- December 2025 Mirage News. EMRs Boost HIV Patient Survival Rates.
- December 2025 Medical Xpress. Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients.
- December 2025 Penn Today: "Electronic medical records help save lives of HIV patients." Read it
- December 2025 "Good Data, Good Questions," with Dror Etzion, Lucie Baudoin, Patrick J. Callery, Cady A. Lancaster, and Rajat Panwar, is published online in Organization & Environment. Read it
- October 2025 "The Lifesaving Impact of Electronic Medical Records for HIV Patients," with Laura Derksen and Anita McGahan, is published online in the Review of Economics and Statistics. Read it
- September 2025 VoxDev. Electronic medical records save lives.
- August 2025 Inside ASQ. 2025 ASQ Article Award Winners, Lessons on Dissertation-Based Papers, and Changes in the Editorial Team.
- June 2025 SAGE Perspectives blog: "Converting a thesis/dissertation into a manuscript." Read it
- May 2025 "The Normative Core of Relational Stakeholder Strategies," with Sérgio Lazzarini, Dirk Boehe, and Michael Cook, is published online in Business Ethics Quarterly. Read it
- April 2025 Alice Palmer (Substack). The Amazon's Agribusiness Leaders Might Not Be Villains After All.
- March 2025 The ASQ Blog features "The Allegory of the Favela: The Multifaceted Effects of Socioeconomic Mobility." Read it
- March 2025 "Heroes or Villains? Agribusiness Leaders in the Amazon Region," with Gustavo Cordeiro, Paulo Arvate, and Joana Story, appears in Academy of Management Discoveries 11(1). Read it
- January 2025 The Green Stories Podcast: "The Green Stories with Professor Leo Pongeluppe." Watch it
- January 2025 New SAGE Business Case with Luís Gil and Nuno Gil: "Lions Outback Vision: Saving Sight With a Lens to the Future." Read it
- January 2025 Faculti. The Allegory of the Favela: The Multifaceted Effects of Socioeconomic Mobility.
- September 2024 Folha de São Paulo. Qual o custo de subir a escada social? (in Portuguese)
- September 2024 Strategic Management Society. Competitive Strategy and Climate Change.
- July 2024 Estadão. Empresas não atingirão metas de sustentabilidade se continuarem agindo isoladamente, diz pesquisador. (in Portuguese)
- July 2024 Wharton Business Daily. Socioeconomic Mobility Comes at a Price. Does a Higher Income Outweigh Feeling Stigmatized?
- July 2024 BM&C News. BM&C Talks entrevista Leandro Pongeluppe. (in Portuguese)
- July 2024 The Burnes Center for Social Change. Pi-Squared Conversations.
- June 2024 O Globo. Oportunidade e estigma em Favelas. (in Portuguese)
- June 2024 Knowledge@Wharton. The Consequences of Socioeconomic Mobility.
- April 2024 O Povo. Clima, Amazônia e biosocioeconomia. (in Portuguese)
- April 2024 Rotman Magazine. There is no planet B: How organizations can bring sustainability to life.
- March 2024 Organizational Musings. Life of The Disenfranchised Entrepreneur: Discrimination, Success, and Stigma.
- February 2024 Folha de São Paulo. Cidades com prefeitos do agro não desmataram mais que outras e geraram mais negócios, diz estudo. (in Portuguese)
- February 2024 Exame Agro. Atuação da Natura reduz conversão de área para soja e milho na Amazônia. (in Portuguese)
- February 2024 AOM STR Virtual Symposium. How to Measure the Impact of Strategy Research?
- December 2023 AOM Insights. Amazon Data Show Economy or Environment Is a False Choice.
- October 2023 Exame Magazine. O futebol americano tem uma lição para o futebol brasileiro. (in Portuguese)
- September 2023 Knowledge@Wharton. This Company’s Sustainable Partnerships Helped Prevent Amazon Rainforest Deforestation.
- August 2023 Exame Magazine. Lições das orquestras americanas sobre viés de gênero. (in Portuguese)
- May 2023 Exame Magazine. Evidências econométricas sobre o efeito do racismo no futebol. (in Portuguese)
- May 2023 NDSC Podcast. A Conversation with Leo Pongeluppe.
- April 2023 Exame Magazine. Estratégias sagazes para reduzir disparidades de gênero no mercado de trabalho. (in Portuguese)
- March 2023 Valor Econômico. Fundos de investimento de impacto sofisticam métricas para avaliar empresas. (in Portuguese)
- February 2023 Exame Magazine. DNA empreendedor: pode o perfil genético influenciar a decisão de empreender? (in Portuguese)
- December 2022 Stanford Social Innovation Review. Private Firms, Public initiatives.
- December 2022 Rotman Magazine. Retailers: Ignore impoverished neighbourhoods at your peril.
- November 2022 Exame Magazine. Amazônia: bioeconomia é o futuro da agricultura brasileira (in Portuguese)
- October 2022 Exame Magazine. A verdadeira mágica do futebol: tolerância e coesão social. (in Portuguese)
- October 2022 Poets&Quants. All the New Faculty at the Top U.S. Business Schools in 2022.
- Fall/Winter 2022 Wharton Magazine. A New Old-Fashioned Leadership.
- September 2022 Exame Magazine. “O ovo da serpente”: explicações econométricas para a emergência do fascismo. (in Portuguese)
- July 2022 Exame Magazine. Por que alguns países são mais desenvolvidos do que outros? (in Portuguese)
- June 2022 Cambridge University Press Blog. Private entrepreneurs can elevate public innovations – But they also need better Governments.
- May 2022 Exame Magazine. O efeito de Mohamed Salah na redução do preconceito religioso. (in Portuguese)
- April 2022 Humarra Podcast. Episódio #020: Leandro Pongeluppe (in Portuguese)
- March 2022 Exame Magazine. Os efeitos indiretos da guerra na Ucrânia: lições da crise de 2014. (in Portuguese)
- February 2022 Exame Magazine. Socialismo e a mulher no trabalho: sinal do pós-reunificação da Alemanha. (in Portuguese)
- September 2021 Exame Magazine. É possível monetizar impacto social? (in Portuguese)
- August 2021 Exame Magazine. Greenwashing: como identificar? (in Portuguese)
- June 2021 Exame Magazine. É possível avaliar o impacto de lideranças políticas? (in Portuguese)
- May 2021 Americas Quarterly. Amazon Case Study: Natura's Supply Chain.
- May 2021 Estadão. Pesquisa entre cidades bolsonaristas e não bolsonaristas confirma: negacionismo mata (in Portuguese)
- March 2021 Exame Magazine. Quando começar e como avaliar impacto? O caso do BrazilLAB (in Portuguese)
- January 2021 Instituto Credit Suisse Hedging-Griffo. Relatório de Atividades 2019/2020 (in Portuguese)
- December 2020 Exame Magazine. Amazon Impact Bond: alinhando incentivos para conservação da floresta. (in Portuguese)
- September 2020 Exame Magazine. Podem as empresas salvar a Amazônia? (in Portuguese)
- July 2020 Business Fights Poverty Seminar Session. An introduction to cross-sector collaboration and public-private partnerships.
- June 2020 Exame Magazine. Análises de custo-benefício e o retorno social dos projetos de impacto (in Portuguese)
- June 2020 Exame Magazine. É possível conter o avanço da covid-19? (in Portuguese)
- June 2020 Exame Magazine. A receita do impacto social em inovações públicas. (in Portuguese)
- April 2020 Consultor Jurídico. A dimensão estratégica do plano de recuperação judicial. (in Portuguese)
- December 2018 Época Negócios. O que um pesquisador descobriu ao estudar as interações de lojas de comércio eletrônico com favelas (in Portuguese)
- February 2018 Valor Econômico. Parceria com setor privado exige a liderança do Estado. (in Portuguese)
- September 2016 GPP Lab. Fronteiras da Gestão Pública Títulos de Impacto Social (TIS) (in Portuguese)
- June 2015 Portogente. Zona Franca de Manaus: renúncia sem tantos benefícios (in Portuguese)