{"id":1947,"date":"2019-05-02T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2019-05-06T16:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:52:40","slug":"breaking-news-sustainable-innovation-mba-team-wins-whartons-total-impact-portfolio-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/05\/02\/breaking-news-sustainable-innovation-mba-team-wins-whartons-total-impact-portfolio-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Sustainable Innovation MBA Team Wins Wharton&#8217;s Total Impact Portfolio Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A team of Sustainable Innovation MBA students has emerged from an elite group of finalists as the winners of the Total Impact Portfolio Challenge, sponsored by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The team was comprised of Class of 2019 students <strong>Alyssa Stankiewicz, Pete Seltzer, Emily Klein, Maura Kalil,&nbsp;<\/strong>and<strong>&nbsp;Andrew Mallory.&nbsp;<\/strong>Their faculty advisor and coach was Prof. Chuck Schnitzlein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/05\/02\/mba-students-face-off-in-challenge-to-create-the-next-best-impact-investing-idea.html\">More: Read CNBC&#8217;s coverage of the Challenge, featuring our team<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Total Impact Portfolio Challenge involved creating and analyzing a portfolio that met risk, return and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) impact investing objectives. The team presented their work in Philadelphia on May 1 and 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other finalists in the competition included Yale, Columbia, Fordham, and Boston University. Our group was named one of the \u201cFinal Five\u201d back in late-March from an strong field of 25 teams that included entrants from the University of Chicago, Cornell, Georgetown, NYU, Wharton, MIT, and Northwestern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a significant accomplishment, and an important milestone in the history of The Sustainable Innovation MBA program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"828\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-10.39.44-AM-1024x828.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-10.39.44-AM-1024x828.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-10.39.44-AM-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-10.39.44-AM-768x621.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-02-at-10.39.44-AM.png 1314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Beginning third from left, Emily Klein, Alyssa Stankewicz, Andrew Mallory, Maura Kalil, and Peter Setzer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Sustainable Innovation MBA students has emerged from an elite group of finalists as the winners of the Total Impact Portfolio Challenge, sponsored by the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. The team was comprised of Class of 2019 students Alyssa Stankiewicz, Pete Seltzer, Emily Klein, Maura Kalil,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Andrew Mallory.&nbsp;Their faculty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/05\/02\/breaking-news-sustainable-innovation-mba-team-wins-whartons-total-impact-portfolio-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breaking News: Sustainable Innovation MBA Team Wins Wharton&#8217;s Total Impact Portfolio Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163314,426994,46457,26210,8582,26,427011,272245],"tags":[427001,6901,4433],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-awards","category-jobs","category-class","category-leadership","category-learning","category-social-mission","category-strategy","tag-impact-investing","tag-networking","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-vp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}