# Professor Tensie Whelan discusses Stern's new Center for Sustainable Business

1 School News February 17, 2016 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets & Quants](http://poetsandquants.com/2016/02/17/stern-launches-center-for-sustainable-business/2/) -- "'I think we’re at a moment in time where all business will need to take into account environmental and social issues risk management,' reasons [Whelan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan). 'We’re going to have supply chain disruptions related to environmental and social challenges. We’re going to have energy disruptions and water disruptions. There’s going to be a set of environmental and social problems that will absolutely affect businesses if they’re not managing correctly for them.'"

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