Past Events
March 1, 2017
SASB Workshop: the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Methodology
Please join us as the Center for Sustainable Business and iCompli host a workshop designed to teach participants how to use the SASB methodology. Open to students, alumni, and current faculty and staff.
February 28, 2017
The Path Forward: Chipotle's Vision for its Future Food Ecosystem
A conversation with Steve Ells, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill and Tensie Whelan, Director of CSB, about Chipotle's efforts to ensure that better food, prepared from whole, unprocessed ingredients is accessible to everyone.
December 6, 2016
Market-Beating Performance: How environmental and social factors contribute to achieving investment results
with Parnassus Investments Founder and President Jerome L. Dodson
Parnassus Investments is a leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment firm. Jerome will speak about the founding of the firm, the business challenges it presented, and the firm's approach to ESG investing. He will dive into the complexities of ESG financial analysis, and the role of environmental and social factors in achieving investment performance.
Decebmer 1, 2016
Panel on Sustainability Leadership: How companies are realizing the value of sustainability in their business strategies
Join us as Adi Ignatius, Editor of Harvard Business Review, Georg Kell, Vice Chairman of Arabesque Partners, and Jonathan Maher, VP of CSR and Sustainability at L'Oreal, discuss what leadership in sustainability looks like for today's businesses. The panel will be moderated by Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business.
September 21, 2016
Women in Sustainable Business
Come hear from women sustainable business leaders from Etsy, Acumen, Bloomberg, Ox Verte and NYU about their experiences manging and leading their organizations.
You can read more about the event here.
September 19, 2016
Doing Good is Good Business: A talk by global businessman and philanthropist David Arison
With Opening Remarks from Dean Peter Henry
Learn how The Arison Group, a global business and philanthropic enterprise with a diversified portfolio in finance, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy, water, is demonstrating leadership in sustainable business by implementing the Doing Good Model across all of its companies and philanthropic organizations in order to create positive impact on all levels – social, environmental, and economic.
Watch a video of this event here.
May 9, 2016
A Conversation with Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the 21st Century Corporation
With Tensie Whelan, Director of Stern's Center for Sustainable Business and Jo Confino, Executive Editor of the The Huffington Post.
Engage in a conversation about the next generation of capitalism: how companies, in providing value to society, provide more value to themselves. Panelists will discuss both how sustainability embedded in corporate strategy yields financial results, and the challenges the current financial system presents.
Read a recap of the event, and watch a video recording of this event here.
April 14, 2016
Big Data and Sustainable Development
NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a panel discussion on how public and private sectors and civil society are tapping into big data to design, monitor and evaluate policies. Increasingly, environmental, economic and social data are being leveraged for decision making and companies which provide services to aggregate and analyze these data are at the forefront of a data revolution for sustainable development. The event featured panelists from the UN, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Columbia University and was moderated by Stern professor Vasant Dhar. Read a recap here and watch a video of the event.
March 30, 2016
Future Jobs Fair
NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a Future Jobs Fair with Vice Media and Collectively. Students came to chat with leading pioneers, to apply for positions and to engage in a conversation around the future of work. Read a recap here.
February 26, 2016
USWIB Conference
Tensie Whelan spoke at the 11:30 am for the Insights from the C-Suite panel at the 5th Annual USWIB Conference!
February 26, 2016
Insights from the C-Suite
NYU Stern Kaufman Management Center
Please enter through the Schwartz Plaza Entrance
Panel location: Room 2-70
February 22, 2016
Fireside Chat with Guillaume LeCunff, CEO of Nespresso USA
Guillaume Le Cunff, CEO of Nespresso USA, and Tensie Whelan, Director of Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business, kicked off the Stern Undergraduate College’s Second Annual Social Impact Week.
February 19, 2016
NYU Social Innovation Symposium
NYU Kimmel Center
Professor Tensie Whelan spoke on “Ten Minutes to Save the World” at the NYU Social Innovation Symposium.
SASB Workshop: the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Methodology
Please join us as the Center for Sustainable Business and iCompli host a workshop designed to teach participants how to use the SASB methodology. Open to students, alumni, and current faculty and staff.
February 28, 2017
The Path Forward: Chipotle's Vision for its Future Food Ecosystem
A conversation with Steve Ells, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill and Tensie Whelan, Director of CSB, about Chipotle's efforts to ensure that better food, prepared from whole, unprocessed ingredients is accessible to everyone.
December 6, 2016
Market-Beating Performance: How environmental and social factors contribute to achieving investment results
with Parnassus Investments Founder and President Jerome L. Dodson
Parnassus Investments is a leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment firm. Jerome will speak about the founding of the firm, the business challenges it presented, and the firm's approach to ESG investing. He will dive into the complexities of ESG financial analysis, and the role of environmental and social factors in achieving investment performance.
Decebmer 1, 2016
Panel on Sustainability Leadership: How companies are realizing the value of sustainability in their business strategies
Join us as Adi Ignatius, Editor of Harvard Business Review, Georg Kell, Vice Chairman of Arabesque Partners, and Jonathan Maher, VP of CSR and Sustainability at L'Oreal, discuss what leadership in sustainability looks like for today's businesses. The panel will be moderated by Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business.
September 21, 2016
Women in Sustainable Business
Come hear from women sustainable business leaders from Etsy, Acumen, Bloomberg, Ox Verte and NYU about their experiences manging and leading their organizations.
You can read more about the event here.
September 19, 2016
Doing Good is Good Business: A talk by global businessman and philanthropist David Arison
With Opening Remarks from Dean Peter Henry
Learn how The Arison Group, a global business and philanthropic enterprise with a diversified portfolio in finance, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy, water, is demonstrating leadership in sustainable business by implementing the Doing Good Model across all of its companies and philanthropic organizations in order to create positive impact on all levels – social, environmental, and economic.
Watch a video of this event here.
May 9, 2016
A Conversation with Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the 21st Century Corporation
With Tensie Whelan, Director of Stern's Center for Sustainable Business and Jo Confino, Executive Editor of the The Huffington Post.
Engage in a conversation about the next generation of capitalism: how companies, in providing value to society, provide more value to themselves. Panelists will discuss both how sustainability embedded in corporate strategy yields financial results, and the challenges the current financial system presents.
Read a recap of the event, and watch a video recording of this event here.
April 14, 2016
Big Data and Sustainable Development
NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a panel discussion on how public and private sectors and civil society are tapping into big data to design, monitor and evaluate policies. Increasingly, environmental, economic and social data are being leveraged for decision making and companies which provide services to aggregate and analyze these data are at the forefront of a data revolution for sustainable development. The event featured panelists from the UN, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Columbia University and was moderated by Stern professor Vasant Dhar. Read a recap here and watch a video of the event.
March 30, 2016
Future Jobs Fair
NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a Future Jobs Fair with Vice Media and Collectively. Students came to chat with leading pioneers, to apply for positions and to engage in a conversation around the future of work. Read a recap here.
February 26, 2016
USWIB Conference
Tensie Whelan spoke at the 11:30 am for the Insights from the C-Suite panel at the 5th Annual USWIB Conference!
February 26, 2016
Insights from the C-Suite
NYU Stern Kaufman Management Center
Please enter through the Schwartz Plaza Entrance
Panel location: Room 2-70
February 22, 2016
Fireside Chat with Guillaume LeCunff, CEO of Nespresso USA
Guillaume Le Cunff, CEO of Nespresso USA, and Tensie Whelan, Director of Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business, kicked off the Stern Undergraduate College’s Second Annual Social Impact Week.
February 19, 2016
NYU Social Innovation Symposium
NYU Kimmel Center
Professor Tensie Whelan spoke on “Ten Minutes to Save the World” at the NYU Social Innovation Symposium.