Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge
Objective
The Challenge invites graduate student teams from around the world to design and pitch innovative financial solutions that generate measurable social or environmental impact alongside competitive financial returns.
Description
Overview
The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge is an annual global competition in which graduate student teams develop and pitch creative finance-based approaches to pressing social and environmental problems.
Who can participate
- Open to active students in any graduate program at any accredited university worldwide.
- Undergraduate students are not eligible.
- Teams may include members from different graduate schools.
Team composition
- Teams of up to 4 graduate students.
Format
- Teams register and identify a sustainability problem to address.
- Teams submit a two-page prospectus proposing an investment strategy (not an operating business) that uses finance and investment tools to address an environmental or social challenge.
- Finalist teams are selected to pitch in person to a panel of sustainable finance professionals.
- The Challenge kicks off around November and concludes with an in-person finals pitch at a Morgan Stanley global office (recent finals have been held in New York, Hong Kong, and London).
- Participants can access optional mentorship, masterclasses, and networking opportunities with finance professionals.
Finals in London, UK
Undefined
Public
Business School
innovation
Networking
contact@sustainableinvestingchallenge.org
Northwestern University - Kellogg
Morgan Stanley
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing
1st Place: $10,000
2nd Place: $5,000
3rd Place: $2,500
Free