2016 Turner MIINT Competition Winner: MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management took home top honors at the 2016 Turner MIINT competition, earning a potential $50,000 investment for their recommended company—an innovative financial inclusion business helping individuals in South America access credit.

This year’s MIINT marked a milestone in the program’s growth, with over 600 students participating globally and 25 finalist teams gathering at The Wharton School for the culminating event. Produced by Bridges Impact and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, the MIINT offers a hands-on impact investing experience to graduate students worldwide.

Brian Trelstad, Partner at Bridges Ventures, said: “A vital part of building the impact investment field is to develop a pipeline of talented people who combine solid commercial training with an appreciation for how social and environmental changes happen. We recognised that business schools might find it difficult to meet the growing interest in impact investing among MBA students, so we created the MIINT as a new kind of course: one that is experiential, and one that is inherently collaborative, by working across campuses around the world. The MIINT’s remarkable growth in the last three years demonstrates the global appetite for this kind of programme.”

Jacob Gray, Senior Director of the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, said: “Demand for impact investing content is growing on campuses around the world. Our goal in co-producing the MIINT is to provide the best experiential education available in the field of impact investment. And we believe this kind of experience should be made available to students across the world.”