# Professor Tensie Whelan, Director of Stern's new Center for Sustainable Business, describes her mission at Stern

1 School News February 18, 2016 ![Clear Admit logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030869.jpg?itok=C5_PIeFj)>

Excerpt from [Clear Admit](http://blog.clearadmit.com/2016/02/nyu-sterns-center-for-sustainable-business-launches-with-1-million-from-citi-foundation/) -- "'Business schools are the place where the future business leaders learn—and we are at a phase in our global history where we need a new generation of leaders who adopt the idea that their businesses need to contribute value to society, not simply extract and deliver value to shareholders,' [Whelan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan) says."

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Additional coverage appeared on [Metro MBA](http://www.metromba.com/2016/02/nyu-sterns-center-sustainable-business-launches-1-million-citi-foundation/).