Scholarship Summary

Scholarship Description

The Kellogg School of Management and Morgan Stanley partner invite applications for the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. The challenge wants to identify the excellent proposals that offer novel investment strategies to meet some of the most pressing global challenges ahead.

The competition is an opportunity for worldwide graduate students to apply core finance principles to target the economic, social and environmental challenges that drive the field of sustainable investing.

The Kellogg School of Management and Morgan Stanley partner invite applications for the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge. The challenge wants to identify the excellent proposals that offer novel investment strategies to meet some of the most pressing global challenges ahead.

The competition is an opportunity for worldwide graduate students to apply core finance principles to target the economic, social and environmental challenges that drive the field of sustainable investing.

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Scholarship Benefits

  • $15,000 in prizes will be awarded to the winning teams.
  • Awards will be made for the overall quality of the proposals based on the judging criteria.
        • Overall First Place: $10,000
        • Overall Runner-Up: $5,00 
  • Along with the overall first place prize money of $10,000, the winning team will be invited to attend and present on a panel with Dave Chen, CEO, and Principal of Equilibrium Capital and co-founder of the Challenge at the Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles.

Scholarship Eligibility

To be eligible, the applicants must be following all the given criteria:

      • Eligible Countries: The studentships are available to students from all around the world.
      • Entrance Requirements: Graduate students from around the world are invited to participate in the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.
      • Teams are limited to a maximum of four members, all of whom must be enrolled in a graduate program at the time of the prospectus submission, and the team cannot include more than one member who is pursuing an Executive MBA.
      • A team may include members from different graduate schools.
      • All ideas must be the original ideas of the team members. Each team is required to submit a two-page prospectus outlining their proposal.
      • From the submitted prospectuses, ten teams will be selected to present at the finals competition.
      • At least one team member should be available to present at the finals competition, if the team is chosen to advance to that round, and all team members attending the finals competition should plan to stay for the entire event.
      • Note that any team member not in attendance at the finals competition will not share in any prizes awarded to that team.