How can investors move beyond isolated efforts to drive systems-level change? / Sustainability Lunch Series

Join the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative for a conversation with Professor Jason Jay and Hibah Khan (MBA ’25) to explore the emerging field of systemic investing. Unlike traditional investing, which often focuses on standalone transactions or near-term outcomes, systemic investing is about engaging with the root causes and system interdependencies to create lasting change.

This session will introduce the Systemic Investing for Social Change Starter Kit, a new resource co-created by MBA students and practitioners that offers practical tools to help investors, ecosystem builders and leaders align multiple forms of capital toward systems change. The toolkit includes frameworks for stakeholder engagement, systems mapping, multicapital deployment strategies and other practical ways to turn systems thinking into action.

We’ll discuss how the Starter Kit was developed through hands-on collaboration with host investors and how it reflects the growing demand for leaders who can use systems thinking, collaborate across sectors and design for impact at scale. So, whether you’re curious about systemic investing, preparing for a career in impact or looking for tools to bring into your own work, this session will offer an introduction to an approach that redefines what it means to invest for meaningful and lasting change.