CSB Director Tensie Whelan was featured in a CNBC article on Patagonia setting an example for the juxtoposition of sustainability and profitability. Tensie notes that Patagonia is far from the first corporation to be grounded in a charitable mission, such as Newman's Own and alternative models such…
CSB DIrector Tensie Whelan was recently featured as a guest on the podcast Innovation with Mark Peter Davis, Managing Partner of Interplay. In the episode titled Doing Good Can Make You Money, Tensie debunks the idea that sustainability and profits don't align, taking listeners through how the…
SustainabilityX® Magazine announced the release of their Global 50 Women in Sustainability Awards™ 2022 and recongizes CSB Director Tensie Whelan in their inaugural list. The non-profit digital magazine’s Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™ high-level, invite-only program recognizes…
Today, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) announced the award of a $290,000 grant from the Commonwealth Fund to conduct an in-depth analysis of the current practices and opportunities in decarbonizing healthcare systems. NYU Stern CSB will leverage its hallmark Return on…
Reporting metrics are the last step, not the first. NYU Stern CSB Director Tensie Whelan penned a piece published in Harvard Business Review addressing the gap between ESG reporting and results. The article outlines five specific steps for companies to embed sustainability core to business strategy…
Inside Philathropy featured Invest NYC SDG's $2 million grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation in a piece titled A New York Health Funder Looks to Small and Urban Farms as a Solution to Hunger. Expanding upon CSB's work in New York City, the grant supports a partnership with Cornell's FIG…
NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business Receives $2M From Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to Develop Long-Term Solutions to Food Insecurity with Cornell’s FIG Lab.
The Equitable Commute Project, proudly co-founded by NYU Stern CSB, is featured in Bloomberg's coverage of e-bikes transforming transportation in New York City. The article titled The E-Bike Effect Is Transforming New York City discusses the explosion of interest in and accessibility of electric…
In a new report from INSIDER Intelligence, Technologies to Drive Sustainability, Tensie Whelan shares business strategies that make a tangible environmental impact while also driving financial value. Tensie urges companies to think of sustainability as a business opportunity: Focus on the material…
The COVID pandemic put a spotlight on a growing transportation problem: over 250,000 essential working New Yorkers are lower income, largely people of color, who live in transportation deserts, who cannot work remotely, and travel long distances in often convoluted, time consuming routes in their…
