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.
Click through each year below to see the prospectuses and final presentations that were deemed the strongest in that year of the competition.
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
2014 Winner
Fresh Coast Capital
Remediating contaminated land in the US through reforestation.
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2014 Runner-up
myCatch
Lending to small scale sustainable fisheries in the US.
INSEAD
2014 Finalist
Photon
Leasing residential solar lighting in Nepal.
Yale University, School of Management; Yale University, School of Forestry; London Business School
2014 Finalist
Forest Futures Fund
Securitizing timber rights in Costa Rica.
University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
2014 Finalist
Ecoship
Financing energy efficiency improvements on shipping vessels.
University of Oxford, Saïd Business School
2014 Finalist
CP Investments
Financing development of cassava processing market in Ghana.
INSEAD
2014 Finalist
Slum Lav Millionaire
Financing portable compost toilets in India.
Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
2014 Finalist
Helios
Financing solar irrigation systems in India.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
2014 Finalist
Illumina LED Venture Fund
Financing LED street light installation in US municipalities.
Columbia University, Sustainability Management Program
2014 Finalist
MECK Fund
Providing microfinance loans to palm oil farmers in Indonesia.