Morgan Stanley Sutainable Investing Challenge - Enter Competition, Judge, Mentor!

We have exciting news!

Now in its fourth year, we are rebranding the International Impact Investing Challenge or I3C competition as the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. You can read more about the announcement via this press release.

The Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge asks applicants to develop institutional-quality investment vehicles that aim to achieve positive environmental or social impact as well as competitive financial returns. The Challenge is an opportunity to apply core finance and investment principles to address some of the most challenging issues of our times: water, energy, food, climate change, education and healthcare.  

                                            

Teams from business schools and other graduate programs around the world are invited to submit a two-page prospectus starting on February 3, 2014 and no later than February 25, 2014.  Ten finalists will present their proposals to a panel of judges at Morgan Stanley’s New York City headquarters for the finals on April 4, 2014.  For guidelines, judging criteria and prize information, visit www.sustainableinvestingchallenge.org.

How can you get involved? 

• First you can forward this e-mail and share this flyer PDF with other like-minded people interested in sustainable or impact investing.

• As a graduate student, to enter the competition, read about the guidelines, eligibility criteria and judging criteria here.  

• For those of you with financial and/or impact investing experience, to volunteer as a first-round judge,  which requires an approximate 2-hour time commitment to read through and evaluate the 2-page prospectus submissions, please sign up here. 

• For those of you with financial, impact investing and/or sector experience (e.g., health, education, water, agriculture, etc.), you can volunteer as a mentor to help give expertise to student teams by signing up here.

More information can be found at our Sustainable Investing Challenge website, as well as via Twitter at @SI_Challenge.

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have questions or comments about this year’s competition. You can contact: Christine Driscoll Goulay, Associate Director, INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative
christine.driscoll@insead.edu / +33 1 60 72 41 28.

INSEAD Team - Finalists at the 2013 Competition at the World Bank

Another INSEAD Finalist Team presenting at the World Bank during the 2013 competition. INSEAD was the only school to have two finalist teams representing.