In a piece for The CPA Journal, our Founding Director, Tensie Whelan, explores the essential role finance teams can play in assessing the full financial value of sustainability strategies. By tracking outcomes such as avoided costs, risk mitigation, employee retention, innovation, and future sales…
Amy Skoczlas Cole, the director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, breaks down what we cannot afford to turn over to AI in an article for Trellis. Key Takeaways: AI agents trained on outdated models won’t just overlook sustainability value; they will optimize against the identified…
Companies have long complained about the “say-do gap”: Consumers say they want to buy sustainable products and that they’re willing to pay a premium, but don’t actually do so. Yet NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business' latest research shows a different say-do gap: consumers are buying, but…
The NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, or CSB, has researched the Return on Sustainability Investment, or ROSI, for a decade, working across industries and asset classes. We have consistently found that sustainability can drive significant value across the value chain. Through hundreds of…
CSB's Founding Director Tensie Whelan and new Director Amy Skoczlas Cole reflect on the Center's past decade of work and share insights on its focus for the next decade in this Poets&Quants piece. We need to be talking about sustainability through a business lens. Let’s not talk about climate change…
Amy Skoczlas Cole, the new director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, breaks down how to accelerate embedding sustainability into business in a byline in Trellis. Key takeaways include: Corporate sustainability has been granted a “rare mulligan” to re-imagine itself. To be strategic…
The NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) announced the appointment of Tiphaine Massé as Senior Research Scientist. Massé will lead the development of analytics tools and frameworks that embed sustainability into private market investment processes.
Ten years ago, the NYU Stern School of Business embraced the discipline of sustainability as more than an ethical imperative, but an emerging driver of innovation, resilience, and long-term business value. In 2016, Stern formalized that conviction with the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) – founded on the vision of a better world through better business.
It is an honor to write to you as the new leader of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. In this moment of relentless and accelerating change, the underlying business imperative for sustainability has never been stronger. I look forward to building this future together.
I think the biggest change we need is to shift the narrative of sustainability. Schools aren’t teaching sustainability as part of good management, nor are sustainability leaders talking about it as part of effective change management strategy in the business, policy or consumer arenas. As a…
