Recently Published

• Finding the Return on Sustainability Investments (Journal of Financial Transformation)
• The Role of Private Equity in the Decline of a Major Forest Products Company (Case Study)
• The Campaign to Reenergize ExxonMobil (Case Study)
• Complementary Solutions for Holistic Impact Valuation: Return on Sustainable Investment (ROSI™) and Impact-Weighted Accounting (IWA) (Report) 
• The Business Case for Circularity at Reformation (Case Study) 
• The Business Case for Implementing Sustainable Practices to Drive Financial Performance within the Automotive Sector (Case Study)
• How to Bring ESG into the Quarterly Earnings Call (MIT Sloan Management Review) 
• The Business Case for Sustainability: Q&A with NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (Retail Industry Leaders Association) 
• The Business Case for Sustainable Apparel (The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc.) 
• Opinion: NYC's Equitable, Low-Carbon Future Requires Subsidies for Micromobility (City Limits)
• Financial benefits of reimagined, sustainable, agrifood supply networks (Journal of International Business Policy) 
• Invest NYC SDG: A Finance White Paper, Models for Financing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (White Paper) 
• Research Frontiers in the Era of Embedding Sustainability: Bringing Social & Environmental Systems to the Forefront (Hapres, Journal of Sustainability Research) 
• How to Talk to Your CFO about Sustainability (Harvard Busines Review) 
• U.S. Corporate Boards Suffer From Inadequate Expertise in Financially Material ESG Matters (White Paper)
• The Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI): Monetizing Financial Benefits of Sustainability Actions in Companies (Sustainable Consumption and Production)
• Do Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Finance Generate Better Financial Performance? A Review and Meta-analysis (SSRN)
• Existence inductive theory building to study coordination failures in sustainable beef production (Journal of Cleaner Production)
• Making a Better Business Case for ESG (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• Using the Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) Framework to Value Accelerated Decarbonization (Journal of Applied Corporate Finance)
• Embedding Sustainability Performance and Long‐Term Strategy in the Earnings Call (Journal of Applied Corporate Finance)
• ESG & the Earnings Call: Communicating Sustainable Value Creation (CSB & CEO Investor Forum)
• Sustainability-Marketed CPGs Outperform Conventional (Hapres Journal of Sustainability Research)
• Fintech Adapts to Demands for Sustainable and Convenient Investing (The Economist)
• Monetizing Financial Benefits of Sustainability Actions in Companies (The Review of Business: Interdisciplinary Journal on Risk and Society)

More Publications

Articles & Reports

• Finding the Return on Sustainability Investments November 2022
• ESG Reports Aren't a Replacement for Real Sustainability, July 2022
• The Cultural Consensus of Sustainability-Driven Innovation: Strategies for Success, July 2020
• Sustainable Purchasing Patterns and Consumer Responsiveness to Sustainability Marketing Messages, March 2020
• EcoVadis & NYU Stern CSB 2019 Sustainable Procurement Barometer, July 2019
• "The Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI): Monetizing Financial Benefits of Sustainability Actions in Companies" in The Review of Business, June 2019
• Stern CSB Sustainable Market Share Index™, March 2019. To learn more about the study, click here.
• Shareholders Are Stealing Our Jobs, October 2018
• Responsible Investing: Guide to ESG Data Providers and Relevant Trends, September 2017 (originally published in the Journal of Environmental Investing)
• How to Quantify Sustainability's Impact on Your Bottom Line, September 2017
• Deforestation-free Supply Chains: Financial Impact for Brazilian Beef Production, August 2017
• Catalyzing Green Infrastructure on Private Property: Recommendations for a Green, Equitable, and Sustainable New York City, August 2017
• Sustainability and Effective Supply Chain Management: A Literature Review of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, April 2017
• SASB-Bloomberg Alignment Report, April 2017
• The Sustainability Business Case for the 21st Century Corporation, August 2016
  • Harvard Business Review Excerpt: The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

White Papers

• U.S. Corporate Boards Suffer From Inadequate Expertise in Financially Material ESG Matters, by Tensie Whelan, CSB Director, January 2021
• Teaching Sustainable Finance: ways to integrate sustainability in finance education, by Rachelle Belinga, December 2020
• Sustainability Materiality Matrices Explained, by Sophie Rifkin, May 2019
• Financing Mechanisms to Support Sustainable Practices, by Tom Manning, Senior Research Scholar, August 2021
• Green Bonds: What's New, What's Next, and Why Does it Matter?, by Tom Manning, Senior Research Scholar, December 2019
• Sustainability Assessment Tools, by Elyse Douglas and Tom Manning, Senior Research Scholars, January 2017
• Spotlight: Water Business Tools for Managing Water Resources and Risk, by Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Research Scholar, September 2016

Case Studies

• The Role of Private Equity in the Decline of a Major Forest Products Company by Paul Fowler with financial analysis provided by CSB, December 2021
• The Campaign to Reenergize ExxonMobil by Chet Van Wert, November 2021
• Case Study: The Business Case for Implementing Sustainable Practices to Drive Financial Performance within the Automotive Sector, by CSB and SASB, May 2021
• Case Study: The Business Case for Sustainable Apparel at EILEEN FISHER, by Sophie Rifkin and Rithu Raman, January 2021 
• Thinking "Out of the Box:" Up-cycling for Planet, People, & Profit, by Tensie Whelan, December 2020
• Case Study: #OptOutside REI Co-op's Employee WellBeing Programs Allign with Positive Financial Outcomes, by Sophie Rifkin & Rithu Raman, November 2020
• Martin Guitar: Navigating Sustainability and Legacy, by Tristan Davis, Hakan Stanis, Zineb Touzani, Ananya Vidyarthi, and edited by Chet Van Wert, Senior Research Scholar, November 2020
• Innovating a New Business Model for Electric Utilities: Consolidated Edison's Brooklyn & Queens Demand Management Project, by Angus Chan, Gregory Gangelhoff, Amy Klopfenstein, and edited by Chet Van Wert, Senior Research Scholar, January 2019
• Case Study: Greyston Bakery, by Chet Van Wert, Senior Research Scholar, August 2018
• Parnassus Investments: A Contrarian, Socially Responsible Mutual Fund Manager, by Chet Van Wert, Senior Research Scholar, September 2017
• West Elm: Bringing Purpose to its Corporate Ecosystem Through Human Resource Practices, by Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Research Scholar, August 2017
• Citigroup, Inc.: Innovation in Energy Efficiency Financing, by Tom Manning and Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Research Scholar, May 2017
• Avery Dennison: Innovative Marketing of Sustainability Attracts More Loyal Customers, by Randi Kronthal-Sacco, Senior Research Scholar, April 2017
• Kashi: Growing the Supply Chain for Organic Food, by Chet Van Wert, Senior Research Scholar, April 2017
• Nike: Sustainability and Innovation through Flyknit Technology, by Carly Fink, Research Scholar, August 2016
• Exxaro Resources Ltd: Mining and Water Risk Management Case Study, by Carly Fink, Research Scholar, June 2016
• Nespresso: Supply Chain and Stakeholder Engagement Case Study, by Carly Fink, Research Scholar, and Tensie Whelan, Director, May 2016