Yale Team Wins Questrom School of Business Sustainability Case Competition

A five-member team of students from Yale SOM and the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) has won the third annual Boston University Questrom School of Business Sustainability Case Competition. The team clinched its victory during the competition’s final round in Boston on November 16.

Teams from more than 30 schools took part in the contest, which asked students to devise solutions to a series of challenges related to business and the environment. The Yale team took home a $50,000 first-place prize.

“We worked hard over the course of two months to come up with solutions to real problems for real companies,” said team member Shivansh Chaturvedi ’26, a joint degree student at SOM and YSE.

For the final phase in Boston, the team was asked to help ReVision Energy, a New England solar company, develop a comprehensive strategy to increase its B Corp score by establishing a plan to reach net-zero emissions, reduce workforce attrition, improve its frameworks for ethical investing and diversity inclusion, and foster community engagement.

“We presented thorough recommendations for each goal in front of judges from the client and from the industry,” Chaturvedi said. “Our recommendations were based on industry research and knowledge, and refined through our individual expertise across business, environment, sustainability, and social impact topics.”

In addition to Chaturvedi, the team included Arjun Kumar ’25; Leigh Ramsey ’25; YSE student Gabriel Gadsden; and Henry Ritter ’25, a joint-degree student at SOM and YSE.

“It was especially rewarding to be part of such an interdisciplinary group,” Ritter said. “As a team, it felt like we were able to tackle each of the business challenges from many different angles.”

The competition stipulated that the winning team donate 10% of the prize to an environmental nonprofit of the team’s choosing.

“We split our donation between Save The Sound and Common Ground Connecticut after determining which causes were most important to us and finding organizations that are making the greatest local impact,” Chaturvedi said.