Impact Investing: Essential Skills

This is an experiential course designed to introduce students to impact investing and provide them with the skills used by impact investors every day. Students will work on the key "products" required in an impact investment transaction including: sourcing a possible impact investment; pitching a potential investment; writing an investment memo with a full impact analysis; and creating and negotiating a term sheet for a possible impact investment. Through case studies, hands-on assignments, and team-based presentations, students will learn how to evaluate and structure impact investments. The course emphasizes applied tools used in the field and offers insight into pathways for careers in impact finance.