A message from Amy Skoczlas Cole

Dear CSB friends and colleagues,

With the hecticness of Climate Week NYC in the rear view mirror, I can see a clear theme from all the activity: sustainability is shaping decisions about supply chains, capital allocation, consumer demand, and risk resilience.

Smart companies increasingly recognize sustainability as a business continuity and competitiveness issue: a way to manage disruption and sustain long-term performance in a volatile environment.

Many companies still face a gap between sustainability commitments and operational reality. The work ahead is to map how sustainability creates real value for business operations and analytics, and combine that with the processes, platforms, and people needed to make it part of how decisions are made.

This is why sustainability is increasingly a test of business acumen: the ability to understand how external systems are changing and translate that insight into strategic action before it becomes a crisis.

As policy, market expectations, and physical risks evolve, CSB is focused on equipping companies and investors with the practical capabilities and skills to meet the realities of this moment. In doing so, we seek to unlock capital at scale for some of the most urgent – and business relevant – issues of our time. 

Through our research, tools, convening, and teaching, we are working to make sustainability integration more rigorous, actionable, and scalable, and to prepare the next generation of business leaders to do the same.

Note: these are some thoughts that I shared in our monthly NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business newsletter, the Value Brief. 

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With gratitude and determination,
Amy Skoczlas Cole
Director, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Clinical Professor of Business and Society, NYU Stern