Sustainable finance
By Tanner
As an MBA student in my final year of the program I find the opportunity to use my education in finance to help the world not only fiscally, but socially and environmentally, very attractive.
It was an exciting time to start working on a sustainable finance consulting engagement. Blackrock had just announced that they would stop investing in unsustainable companies and several large fortune 500 organizations announced that they had plans on becoming carbon emission net zero. As an MBA student in my final year of the program I find the opportunity to use my education in finance to help the world not only fiscally, but socially and environmentally, very attractive.
I learned a great deal about the sustainable finance industry and consulting engagements in general from my team’s initial analysis of our project prompt to the first virtual meeting with the client. Our client was very responsive and engaged. He is a consultant himself and I think that helped make defining the scope and expectations a smooth process for the team. We came together on an initial direction and expected deliverables, and had planned reviews where the client would give us feedback throughout. The feedback we received was critical to our team being able to present focused analyses.
The team’s overall project organization and the client’s engagement made the project deliverables achievable. Our team’s organization allowed me to spend more time learning about our client’s business and the industry in general, which I found very interesting. I didn’t realize that the sub industry our client operated in existed before starting this project. It made me realize that there are far more opportunities and diverse roles available for people who focus on sustainability in business. I know there are roles in which I can use my education and skills to make a tangible positive impact on the world just like our client’s organization does.