Business & Society Program | BSP Faculty Books, Research, and Awards

Senior Research Scholar Michael D. Goldhaber
"Private Equity and Healthcare: Balancing Profit with Wellness"
(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Clinical Professor Michael Posner was a co-signer of an amicus curiae brief filed in Noem v. Al Otro Lado.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-author
"Generative Organizational Learning: Affordances for New Modes of Knowledge Search, Creation, Transfer, and Forgetting with LLMs"

Professor Alison Taylor's book "Higher Ground" was named a Best Business Book of 2024 by the Financial Times.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-authors
"Construal Level Stereotypes: Perceived Differences in Groups’ Abstract Versus Concrete Cognitive Tendencies"

(Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-authors
"Utilization of Generative AI-drafted Responses for Managing Patient-Provider Communication"

(Published in npj: Digital Medicine)

Professor Jonathan Haidt was named as a recipient of the Bezos Courage & Civility Award.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-authors
"AI Rivalry as a Craft: How Resisting and Embracing Generative AI Are Reshaping the Writing Profession"

Clinical Professor Alison Taylor was shortlisted for the 2025 Thinkers 50 Leadership Award.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-authors
"Laypeople’s Use of and Attitudes Toward Large Language Models and Search Engines for Health Queries: Survey Study"

(Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Jonathan Haidt received the Stern Faculty Impact Award.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld received the 2025 Managerial and Organizational  Cognition Division Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management.

Professor Jonathan Haidt and co-author
The Amazing Generation: How to Choose Fun and Freedom in a Screen-Filled World

(Published by Rocky Pond Books)

Clinical Professor Michael Posner's book Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights won the 2025 United States Prose Award in Business, Finance, and Management.

Professor Jonathan Haidt and co-authors
"Social Media is Harming Young People at a Scale Large Enough to Cause Changes at the Population Level"

(Published by the World Happiness Report)

Clinical Professor Michael Posner
Conscience Incorporated: Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights

(Published by NYU Press)

Research Scholar Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat and co-authors
"Covert Campaigns: Safeguarding Encrypted Messaging Platforms from Voter Manipulation"

Senior Research Scientist Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat
"The (In)Human Right to Privacy and Freedom of Speech in Gaming Spaces"
(Published as a chapter in Terrorism, Hate, Digital Culture: A Human Rights Approach)

Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar Paul Barrett
"‘We Want You To Be A Proud Boy’ How Social Media Facilitates Political Intimidation and Violence"
(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Research from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights was cited in a report from the FTC.

Senior Research Scholar Michael D. Goldhaber

“Reimagining Shareholder Advocacy on Environmental and Social Issues: The Promise and Pitfalls of ‘E&S Stewardship’”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Clinical Professor Alison Taylor was named a winner of the 2024 Porchlight Business Book Awards.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-authors

“Large Language Model–Based Responses to Patients’ In-Basket Messages”

(Published in JAMA Network Open)

Clinical Professor Hans Taparia and co-investigators were awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator.

Adjunct Professor Christopher Wong Michaelson and co-author

Is Your Work Worth It? How to Think About Meaningful Work

(Published by Hachette Book Group)

NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business

“Unleashing Sustainable Value in Food and Agriculture”

(Published by Deloitte)

Clinical Professor Tensie Whelan was named a Notable Leader in Sustainability by Crain's New York Business.

Professor Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

(Published by Penguin Random House)

Professor Jonathan Haidt’s book, “The Anxious Generation,” was named to the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2024 list.

Clinical Professor Alison Taylor

Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World

(Published by Harvard Business Review Press)

Clinical Professor Alison Taylor's book "Higher Ground" was named a Best Business and Management Book of 2024 by The Globe and Mail.

Clinical Professor Alison Taylor's book was named to the 2024 Business Book of the Year Longlist by the Financial Times and Schroders.

Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar Paul Barrett and co-authors

“Digital Risks to the 2024 Election: Safeguarding Democracy in the Era of Disinformation”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

The Center for Business and Human Rights filed an amicus brief in response to the Supreme Court case NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton.

Clinical Professor Tensie Whelan and Research Fellow Ulrich Atz

“Hidden Figures: The State of Human Capital Disclosures for Sustainable Jobs”

Senior Research Scholar Michael D. Goldhaber

“Making ESG Real: A Return to Values-Driven Investing”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Professor Jonathan Haidt and Professor Steven Koonin were awarded the inaugural Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Clinical Professor Sonia Marciano and Clinical Professor Tensie Whelan were recognized as two of Poets & Quants' Best Undergraduate Professors of 2023.

Research Scholar Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat

“Reality Check: How to Protect Human Rights in the 3D Immersive Web”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Clinical Professor Maria Patterson and Professor Russell Winer were recognized as the winners of the 2023 Stern Leadership Excellence Awards.

Several new holders of endowed chair titles, distinguished professorships, and fellowship recipients were recently announced: Tensie Whelan, Distinguished Professor of Practice.

Adjunct Professor Christopher van Bergen

Certifiable: How Businesses Operationalize Responsible Sourcing

(Published by Wiley)

Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar Paul Barrett and co-author

“Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Policy Advisor on Technology and Law Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat and Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar Paul Barrett

“Gaming The System: How Extremists Exploit Gaming Sites and What Can Be Done To Counter Them”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

Professor Tensie Whelan and co-author

“The Road to Responsible Private Equity: A Responsible Investing Framework, Insights, and Cases Toward a Positive Pathway”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business)

The Center for Business and Human Rights filed an amicus brief in response to the Supreme Court case Gonzalez vs. Google.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-researchers received a $743,451 grant from the National Science Foundation.

Professor Batia Wiesenfeld and co-authors

“AI Model Transferability in Healthcare: A Sociotechnical Perspective”

(Published in Nature Machine Intelligence)

Adjunct Professor Alison Taylor was named a recipient of The SustainabilityX® Magazine's inaugural Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards 2022.

Deputy Director and Senior Research Scholar Paul Barrett

“Spreading The Big Lie: How Social Media Sites Have Amplified False Claims of U.S. Election Fraud”

(Published by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights)

The Center for Sustainable Business received a $290,000 grant from the Commonwealth Fund.