Carolyn Miles ‘83 joined the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) via zoom as a guest speaker on September 26, 2022. Miles is the former Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children, an organization that gives children in the United States and around the world a healthy start, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. Prior to Save the Children, Carolyn worked in Hong Kong for American Express and has served on numerous boards including Doerr Institute, Blackbaud, FSG, and the Darden School of Business where she received her MBA. This interactive discussion fostered conversations about sustainability and ESG, a critical element to Miles’ work as a professor at Darden. Students explored concepts such as maximizing value to stakeholders, the triple bottom line, as well as performing ESG analyses when pitching a stock.
We thank Carolyn for taking the time to speak with SMIF and for offering such insightful thoughts about sustainability from a corporate perspective.