# Stern MBA students' work with the CFDA + LEXUS FASHION\* INITIATIVE and alumna Abrima Erwiah (BS ‘02) through the Stern Solutions Sustainability for Competitive Advantage course, led by Professor Tensie Whelan, is featured

1 School News August 22, 2018 ![Whitewall Magazine logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/whitewall192x144.jpg?itok=5RepZOXa)>

Excerpt from [Whitewall Magazine](https://www.whitewall.art/fashion/greg-kitzens) -- "The Fashion\* Initiative encompasses education, mentorship, collaboration, and community. Designers participating in the Fashion\* Initiative had the opportunity to partake in a series of sustainability-focused workshops with experts in the field, a trip to the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, and to engage and problem-solve through education via a live case study, with MBA team support, led by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business through the 'Sustainability for Competitive Advantage' course."

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