The Kenan-Flagler MBA Net Impact Club is hosting the 2023 Careers with Impact Forum: Aligning Purpose & Profession on Friday, October 6, 2023 from 8:3003:00 at the Kenan Center in Chapel Hill.
ACES was pleased to facilitate the award of the Stacia L. Wood Social Impact Summer Grant to six deserving MBA students so that they could pursue internships with a focus on social impact and sustainability. Learn more about their experiences in the summer of 2023.
Earth Month ended with our 2023 UNC Sustainability Awards, a wonderful celebration of North Carolina businesses, alumni and students who all work to take initiative through innovative products or practices that have a positive impact for people and the planet
Bennett Wetch, UNC-CH Class of 2007, consistently mentors our students, visits our classes, speaks with faculty and helps ACES maximize our impact. Bennett exemplifies an intense dedication to his alma mater and positive sustainability impact.
We are happy to announce the winners of the 2024 LIFT( Investment for Future Transformation) Challenge! This year, team Sustainable Impact (photos below) from Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, University of Virginia Darden School of Business and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business placed first in the LIFT challenge sponsored by Bank of America. Their proposal focused on using blended finance to create a compressed biogas facility in India.
This year’s Awards Gala will begin with a reception in the Kenan Center Lounge, followed by the dinner and awards ceremony in the Kenan Center Dining Room featuring renowned chef Jocob Boehm of Snap Pea.
ACES’ Sustainability Fellow and PhD Student Angie Fairchild won the 2022 Business for a Better World Dissertation Proposal Competition and presented her research during the Business for a Better World Research Symposium on September 23.
