# Professor Tensie Whelan comments on the resignation of several business leaders from President Trump's advisory councils

1 Faculty News August 16, 2017 ![Mic logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/mic.jpg?itok=AyLpk5x4)>

Excerpt from [Mic](https://mic.com/articles/183812/trump-ditches-ceo-councils-after-they-ditch-him#.mOd9KevBw) -- "'Increasingly citizens are holding businesses accountable,' added [Tensie Whelan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan), a professor of business and society at the New York University Stern School of Business. 'It isn’t really an option to say nothing, you have to stand up and be counted.'"

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