Engage in a conversation about the next generation of capitalism: how companies, in providing value to society, provide more value to themselves. Panelists will discuss both how sustainability embedded in corporate strategy yields financial results, and the challenges the current financial system presents.
Read a recap of the event, and watch a video recording of this event here.
The Commodities and Emerging Market Risks Conference, hosted by the Volatility Institute under the leadership of Robert F. Engle, brought together leading academics, policymakers, and financial practitioners to examine the complex dynamics of commodity markets and emerging economies. Held on April 29, 2016, in New York City, the conference focused on understanding how global financial systems are…
On April 20, 2016, the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights hosted a discussion between Dean Peter Henry and Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Topics included the business case for human rights, Ms. Kennedy's history of human rights activism and how investment can be a game changer with respect to human rights in the business context.
The discussion was part of…
Seema Saifee, staff attorney for the Innocence Project, delivered the 11th annual Haitkin Lecture, hosted by NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program, to an audience of undergraduate Stern students. Saifee was joined by Andre Hatchett, who was recently exonerated after serving 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and his brother, Jerry Hatchett.
Saifee discussed the Innocence Project…
NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business co-hosted a panel discussion on how public and private sectors and civil society are tapping into big data to design, monitor and evaluate policies. Increasingly, environmental, economic and social data are being leveraged for decision making and companies which provide services to aggregate and analyze these data are at the forefront of a data…
Robert Frank, research scholar at NYU Stern and the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management at Cornell University, delivered the 2016 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture to a packed auditorium of undergraduate students, alumni and guests from the family of alumnus Ashok C. Sani (BS ’74). This year's talk, entitled "Success & Luck," was hosted by NYU Stern’s…
NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business, VICE Media and Collectively co-hosted the Future Jobs Fair on Wednesday, March 30. NYU and Stern students had the opportunity to share their ambitions on the future of work, design their perfect job of the future, and gain insights and skills into what the world of work will look like. Along with representation from employers including Unilever, Google…
Susan Crawford, professor at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, visiting professor at Harvard Law School, contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Guilded Age, delivered the 10th Annual Haitkin lecture, entitled "The Responsive City: Communications in Context." Hosted by NYU Stern’s Business &…
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara recently addressed an auditorium of students and faculty from NYU’s Stern School of Business and Law School, as well as Stern alumni. The lecture was hosted by NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program.
Drawing from his experience overseeing the investigation and litigation of criminal and civil cases, Bharara pointed to…
