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Recent alumnus Jamison Alexander Friedland (MBA '20) is highlighted as part of P&Q's "2020 MBAs To Watch" list; Friedland discusses the wide-ranging impact Stern's Center for Sustainable Business had on his academic and professional career

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Excerpt from Poets & Quants -- "My favorite professor at NYU Stern has been Tensie Whelan. I had the opportunity to meet Tensie before I enrolled at Stern through events hosted by the School’s Center for Sustainable Business. Through this meeting, I was able to negotiate a research opportunity about ESG credentials of Fortune 100 board members. I was then also able to work as Professor Whelan’s teaching fellow for four of her courses at the Undergraduate, MBA, and Online Certificate levels. Prior to working with Tensie, I was aware of how approaching investing from a sustainable mindset could be used as a risk mitigant. However, as her teaching fellow, I was able to watch her successfully demonstrate the potential financial upside available for companies which I can use going forward in my professional life."

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