The Wharton team of Ashish Mehta, Xiao Chen, Xiaoying (Alice) Zhang, Hui (Vicki) Yan, and Xiaoming (Vivien) Zuo recently won the National Sustainable Venture Capital Competition.  A big congratulations is in order as the team bested competitors from UC-Berkeley, Columbia, University of Michigan, NYU, UNC, Duke, and Northwestern to take the title.  It is a testament to Wharton’s emerging strength in developing students with a keen sense for identifying business opportunities that combine financial and social return.  According to the official conference press release:

“The SVCIC is the only MBA competition in which students evaluate business plans that incorporate financial profitability, environmental integrity and social equity from entrepreneurs actively seeking venture capital funding.”

Some of us may dream of a day when this is not a specialized competition, but rather simply the way that all businesses are evaluated, but in the meantime, we’re quite happy to be at the forefront of an emerging field!