Sustainable Investing Challenge with Travel Support

Every year, the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge invites teams of graduate students from around the world to develop and pitch creative financial approaches to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges. The Challenge identifies, empowers, and inspires the next generation of sustainable finance practitioners and connects them with leading industry professionals.

In addition to the broader call for proposals inviting creative financial approaches to social and environmental issues, the 2020 Sustainable Investing Challenge is encouraging concepts that target plastic waste. This new-for-2020 opportunity is in keeping with Morgan Stanley’s Plastic Waste Resolution and commitment to facilitating the prevention, reduction, and removal of 50 million metrics tons of plastic waste from entering rivers, oceans, landscapes and landfills by 2030. Proposals that address the issue of plastic waste will be eligible for an additional prize of $5,000 in addition to eligibility for the annual top and runner-up prizes for the overall competition.

The competition requires you to propose and defend a sustainable impact investment strategy that uses finance and investment to create an innovative solution to an environmental or societal challenge. It is not looking to evaluate business plans.

Eligibility

• A team must consist of 4 members and not more than that
•  No limitation to the number of teams from one school who can participate in the Challenge
• Each student may only belong to one team, and each team may only submit one entry
• Only students currently enrolled in a graduate degree program are eligible to participate in this competition. All students on a team must be graduate students
• The competition is open to any and all graduate school students, and past finalists have come from all types of schools

Benefits

• All travel and accommodations are necessary for participation in the finals
• Overall winner
  •  $10,000
  • Invited to attend and present on a panel at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles ($12,500 value per person)
• Runner-up
  • $5,000
• Best plastic waste proposal
  • ​​​Proposals that address the issue of plastic waste will be eligible for an additional prize of $5,000 in addition to eligibility for the annual overall and runner-up prizes

• All finalists team

  • Fully paid travel and accommodations to present your idea at the New York Morgan Stanley offices in front of a panel of world-renowned sustainable finance leaders

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Application process

• Submit your entry by clicking here.