Careers

Your path, our support

Kellogg can equip you with the tools to lead impact-driven organizations, manage corporate impact and sustainability, deploy capital for impact, or drive change through policy. Indeed, our students play these roles across organizations that create change on issues like climate, food and agriculture, healthcare, global and economic development, or education.

Whether in full-time impact work, focusing on sustainability and impact within a broader corporate role, or in dedication to board service, philanthropy or public service, Kellogg students and alumni succeed in finding paths that forge impact in unique and diverse careers and lives.

Kellogg connects students and alumni to a rich portfolio of employers and opportunities for careers and internships. With employers visiting campus, hosting interviews and meet-and-greet sessions, Kellogg students gain exposure to a broad range of employers and possibilities in the impact and sustainability space.

Career Support

Kellogg prepares students for success in business, and our world-renowned Career Management Center equips them to manage and foster social impact in their careers over a lifetime. With career coaches who are experts on impact career tracks to on-campus interviewing and career visits from impact companies and organizations, to a comprehensive job board with opportunities across impact sectors, Kellogg’s Career Management Center and social impact professors and team support students and alumni to forge their own paths in their impact careers.

Kellogg also offers extensive funding to enable career exploration and experience building. Whether it’s direct funding for social entrepreneurs, internship stipends that make it possible for students to pick high impact opportunities without worrying about salary, or post-graduate funds that derisk the pursuit of impact and sustainability careers, we have options to support you on your path. Learn more about funding.

Recent job search outcomes

Impact and sustainability aren’t always easy to define, and our students have landed in roles that cross sectors, borders, and sometimes defy expectations of where impact and sustainability work is done or what work an MBA prepares you for. These are a small sample of the career outcomes of former students:

Corporate impact & responsibility:

Facebook, General Electric, Starbucks, EcoLab, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Abbott, Apple, Target

Leadership of mission driven enterprises and public service:

The White House, RTI International, National Park Service, New York Public Radio, Joseph Project, United Nations, Fish4Hope, Gavi Vaccine Alliance, Medtronic Labs

Impact and sustainable finance:

IFC, Builders Vision, Equilibrium Capital, New System Ventures, Social Finance

Social impact and sustainability consulting:

McKinsey, Deloitte, BCG, Bridgespan, Dalberg, Ideas42, FSG Advisors, Arabella Advisors, Civic Consulting Alliance

Social and sustainable entrepreneurship and enterprise:

Inspirotec, Piece & Company, Koa Organic Beverages, and Story2 LLC

Climate, environment, and energy:

Weave Grid, CO 280, C3 AI

Other pathways to incorporating impact and sustainability

We recognize that even if you have a deep interest in impact or sustainability, a full-time career focused on impact might not be right for you. We have resources and community that facilitate ways to discover the role impact and sustainability in your job or your life.

We prepared the following ‘fly-wheels’ to impact to help students understand the different approaches to impact and sustainability careers. A majority of our students who are interested in social impact and sustainability in fact indicate that they either intend to ‘pivot’ focus after a traditional career or see their primary pathway for engagement lying outside of their career. We serve these students and here are some of the journeys we support: