Past Finalists and Winners
The prospectuses and presentations of Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge finalists are not only a great reference for participating students, but are an evolving record of the evolution of the field of sustainable finance, and, in some cases, early iterations of what have now become successful ventures.
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Click through each year below to see the prospectuses and final presentations that were deemed the strongest in that year of the competition.
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
2014 Winner
Fresh Coast Capital
Remediating contaminated land in the US through reforestation.
Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley
2014 Runner-up
myCatch
Lending to small scale sustainable fisheries in the US.
Darden School of Business at University of Virginia
2014 Finalist
Ecoship
Financing energy efficiency improvements on shipping vessels.
Sustainability Management Program at Columbia University
2014 Finalist
MECK Fund
Providing microfinance loans to palm oil farmers in Indonesia.
Yale School of Management, Yale School of Forestry, London Business School
2014 Finalist
Forest Futures Fund
Securitizing timber rights in Costa Rica.
Slum Lav Millionaire
Financing portable compost toilets in India.
Said Business School at University of Oxford
2014 Finalist
CP Investments
Financing development of cassava processing market in Ghana.
Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2014 Finalist
Illumina LED Venture Fund
Financing LED street light installation in US municipalities.
Photon
Leasing residential solar lighting in Nepal.
School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
2014 Finalist
Helios
Financing solar irrigation systems in India.
