Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge
Objective
The Challenge invites teams of graduate students worldwide to develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges, seeking to identify and empower the next generation of sustainable finance leaders.
Description
Overview
The Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge is a global pitch competition in which graduate student teams design institutional-quality investment vehicles that seek both measurable social or environmental impact and competitive financial returns.
Eligibility
- Open to students currently enrolled in a graduate program at any accredited university worldwide
- Teams may include members from different graduate schools
- Undergraduate students are not eligible
Team Composition
- Teams of up to four members
Format
- Teams register and submit a two-page investment prospectus proposing a finance-based (not operating-company) solution to a sustainability challenge
- Optional mentorship from sustainable finance professionals, masterclasses from leading professors, and a virtual sustainable finance career trek
- Submissions are scored by volunteer industry judges to select finalists
- Finalists travel (fully funded) to pitch live to a senior judging panel at a Morgan Stanley global headquarters, with recent finals held in London
Notable Details
- Founded in 2011, the first graduate competition focused on sustainable investing
- Has engaged thousands of students from over 100 countries and 150+ universities
- No entry fee
Finals in London, UK
January 26, 2025
Public
Business School
innovation
Networking
contact@sustainableinvestingchallenge.org
Northwestern University - Kellogg
Morgan Stanley
Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University), Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing
1st Place: $10,000
2nd Place: $5,000
3rd Place: $2,500