NYU Stern Business & Society Program
An interdisciplinary endeavor developing and supporting a new generation of responsible business leaders.
Business & Society Program
The Business & Society Program supports future business leaders to develop the mindsets and practical skills required to address today's most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges. Our academic courses, research, and public engagement focus on the intersection of business and sustainability, social impact, human rights, law, social entrepreneurship, and the design of ethically effective organizations.
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Restructuring the Corporation with Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan
BSP Professors Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan, authors of the forthcoming book People's Capitalism, are featured in More Perfect Union’s investigation into corporate monopolies and market failure. They explore how the rise of institutional investors has stripped wealth from local communities, and offer actionable public policy catalysts to scale cooperative business models across the country.
Capture, Redesign, Release: A Non-Regulatory Remedy for Intractable Market Failure with Application to the Cigarette Industry
BSP Professors Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan were recognized in the Stern Faculty Research Brief for their paper titled: "Capture, Redesign, Release: A Non-Regulatory Remedy for Intractable Market Failure with Application to the Cigarette Industry"
Dr. Victor C. Mullins Receives 2026 Earl Hill Jr. Faculty Achievement and Diversity Leadership Award
Dr. Victor C. Mullins, BSP Adjunct Professor and Senior Associate Dean at NYU Stern, has received the 2026 Earl Hill Jr. Faculty Achievement and Diversity Leadership Award from The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management. The award recognizes his exceptional leadership, teaching, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.
2026 Best & Brightest Business Major: Wendy Benitez Jaramillo
Wendy Benitez Jaramillo, a BSP Social Impact Fellows Program student, has been named one of Poets & Quants' 2026 Best & Brightest Business Majors, recognized for her academic achievements, leadership, and commitment to social impact, including her work in BSP's Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Costa Rica course taught by BSP Professor Jill Simeone.
After 10 Years, NYU Stern's Sustainability Push Moves From Proof To Practice
Poets & Quants features the Center for Sustainable Business on its ten-year anniversary, with insights from BSP Clinical Professor Amy Skoczlas Cole, Clinical Professor Emerita Tensie Whelan, and Full-time MBA alumna Georgia Mohrbacher (MBA '24) on how the Center has moved sustainability from academic research to real-world business practice.
Attention Crisis: How leaders can fix focus and happiness in an AI Era
BSP Professor Jonathan Haidt joined the World Economic Forum's Meet The Leader podcast to share research-backed insights on the attention crisis, the impact of AI on human connection, and how leaders can restore focus and purpose.
It's Time to Regulate Frontier AI the Way We Regulate Drugs
In a Forbes op-ed, BSP Clinical Professor Michael Posner argues that frontier AI poses risks serious enough to warrant the kind of rigorous oversight applied to the pharmaceutical industry and that waiting for harm to occur before acting is not an option.
NYU Stern at the UN Women's HeForShe Universities Webinar
BSP Adjunct Professor Mara van Loggerenberg and her Social Impact Consulting student Aparna Vagvala spoke at UN Women's HeForShe Universities Webinar on how universities can translate academic learning into real-world impact.
Stern Students Take Social Impact Work to the United Nations and Beyond
Students from BSP's Social Impact Consulting course represented Stern at the United Nations. Megan Ortwein, along with class teammates Lekhya Kantheti, Aparna Vagvala, and Jennifer Lin, developed research on countering the manosphere and digital violence, with Megan selected as a panelist at a CSW70 side event at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations.
A message from CSB Director, Amy Skoczlas Cole
BSP Clinical Professor Amy Skoczlas Cole shares her vision as the new Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, making the case that despite growing headwinds, the business imperative for sustainability has never been stronger.
