Center for Sustainable Business | Annual Practice Forum

Value Through Volatility: How Sustainability Creates Value in Turbulent Times

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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Volatility isn’t something on the horizon – it’s here. The businesses that successfully navigate through to the future will be guided by leaders who position sustainability as core to strategy, management, financial performance, and value creation.

Save the date for the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business Ninth Annual Practice Forum!

This industry-leading event convenes investor and corporate sustainability professionals for a lively exchange on the latest data, practical tools, and case studies on leveraging sustainability strategies to drive innovation and next generation efficiency, protect and scale market access, create new products and services, and drive growth.   

The full-day program will feature fresh insights from practitioners and experts, candid conversations with executives, new research findings, spotlights on implementation, and interactive sessions to apply learnings. Participants gain practical tools and frameworks to better understand and apply sustainability strategies that create competitive advantage, sharpen risk perception, stabilize supply chains, attract talent, earn trust, and generate enterprise value.

We are thrilled to announce this year's event sponsors: Nespresso, Glenmede, SWCA, and our media partner MIT Sloan Management Review.

2026 program highlights include:

• Fireside chat with newly appointed NYU Stern CSB Director Amy Skoczlas Cole and Distinguished Professor of Practice Emerita Tensie Whelan on sustainability strategies to preserve and scale value creation
• Interactive exploration of how investors and business leaders are navigating the risks and opportunities of AI and sustainability together
• Fireside chats with C-suite leaders, moderated by our media partner MIT Sloan Management Review
• Unveiling of the 2025 Sustainable Market Share Index and effective social sustainability messages that resonate with consumers
• Expert insights into how to communicate sustainability as a competitive advantage
• Lively conversations on how specific sustainability strategies – like decarbonization and circularity – are foundational to driving business imperatives like next-gen efficiency and market access
• Spotlights on cutting-edge business, sustainability, and climate research from across Stern and NYU
• and more announced soon!