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Corporate citizenship

Corporate citizenship

Our values drive who we are

Our commitment

We draw strength from our culture, diversity, and strong sense of community spirit, which is why we aspire to be a truly global corporate citizen—one that is proximate to and supportive of the communities in which we live and work.

Our approach to corporate citizenship rests on these foundations:

  • Respecting the interests of our clients, employees, and key stakeholders
  • Making responsible investment decisions
  • Holding ourselves to the highest ethical standards
  • Caring about our communities and the environment

Connecting with local communities

We believe in giving back to the communities where we live and work.

Volunteering

Several initiatives empower employees to participate and contribute to a range of charitable organizations. Our annual Global Volunteer Week program incorporates activities across all our global offices that help our communities—and build stronger local relationships.

Charitable giving

We take an active role in supporting worthy causes and organizations in our local communities. Some examples include youth mentoring, child/adult special education, gender diversity, poverty and homelessness, various health causes, women’s leadership, and the arts. This commitment to doing good flows through the organization. We also support employees who choose to make donations to the causes they value through our Matching Gift Program.
HarbourVest ESG report 2022

Responsible investing

We set high expectations for our managers and investors on ESG and climate change.

Countering carbon emissions

Because we set high expectations for our managers and investors on ESG and climate change, we strive to lead by example and take responsibility for our own emissions. We are proud of our annual commitment to measure, reduce, and offset HarbourVest’s greenhouse gas emissions, including operational emissions across our global offices and those created by business travel. Since 2020, our annual emissions calculation has helped us understand our annual operating emissions and develop reduction initiatives, and our annual offsetting program has delivered finance to independently verified emissions reduction projects supporting the global transition to a low-carbon economy.

CarbonNeutral®

Just as we set high expectations for our managers and investors on ESG and climate change, it is important to us that we lead by example and take responsibility for our own emissions. We are proud to be a CarbonNeutral company in accordance with The CarbonNeutral Protocol, the leading framework for carbon neutrality. Our annual offsetting program delivers finance to emissions reduction projects supporting the global transition to a low-carbon economy. All projects are independently verified to assure emissions reductions are occurring.

Continuation solutions encompass a host of transaction types in which a GP secures interim liquidity and/or additional primary capital for their LPs in a strongly performing asset, or set of assets, that the GP will continue to own and control. Specifically, they include continuation funds, new funds created by GPs for the purpose of acquiring the asset(s) that continue to be managed by the same GP and capitalized by one or several secondary buyers, or equity recapitalizations involving a direct equity or structured equity investment into a portfolio company. These transactions can also include a parallel investment from the GP’s latest fund into that same pool of assets (a “cross-fund trade”).