# Professor Tensie Whelan discusses the Paris Agreement and the implications for MBA students

1 Faculty News June 5, 2017 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets & Quants](http://poetsandquants.com/2017/06/05/b-schools-react-to-paris-agreement/) -- "[Whelan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan) says where climate work is concerned, MBAs today face an unprecedented landscape in which the corporate sector is married with the work of state-level and municipal government. 'For MBAs, it’s about understanding what this means and understanding where the rest of the governments are going and then figuring out how, as a corporate sector with states and municipalities, we can try to claw back some of our reputation so that we can have better relationships with companies and governments overseas,' she says."

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