# Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business is highlighted as a leader in the space, noting Director Tensie Whelan’s leadership in sustainability research and work with Director of Academic Research Tracy Van Holt

1 School News October 20, 2019 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/00c9006c-e445-11e9-b112-9624ec9edc59) -- "When Tensie Whelan, the former president of the Rainforest Alliance, joined New York University’s Stern School of Business, it was on condition that it establish a centre to support serious research into sustainability. Now she is running Stern’s Centre for Sustainable Business, she says: 'I’m looking at designing research that will help us best understand how to best design the next stage of capitalism.'”

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