Past Events

On April 23, NYU Stern's Center for Sustainable Business hosted a panel entitled, "ESG and Impact Investing Across Asset Classes." The evening began with welcome remarks from Kyung-Ah Park, managing director and head of environmental markets at Goldman Sachs & Co. The discussion, which was moderated by Professor Tensie Whelan, explored how investors across fixed income, public equity and private…

On Tuesday, April 16, NYU Stern’s Business and Society Program (BSP) hosted the 2019 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence Lecture, delivered by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (TSOA '92). A packed audience of NYU students, alumni and guests from the family of alumnus Ashok C. Sani (BS ’74) gathered at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts for the talk entitled, “The Struggle to…

Ethical Systems, housed in NYU Stern's Business and Society Program, hosted its second biennial Ethics by Design conference, “Managing Organizations in an Era of Anxiety, Polarization & Disruption,” bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss present-day challenges for running ethical organizations. Following welcome remarks by Ethical Systems Executive Director Azish Filabi and…

NYU Stern's Business and Society Program hosted Blake Gopnik, art critic and author of a forthcoming Andy Warhol biography, and Amy Whitaker, assistant professor in arts administration at NYU Steinhardt, for the first event in a new series bringing together business and the arts at NYU Stern. The dialogue, entitled, “Stern Meets Warhol,” explored the life and work of Andy Warhol as both an artist…

On Wednesday, March 13, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business hosted its Second Annual Practice Forum, entitled “How to Assess the ROI on Sustainability for Corporate Practitioners and Investors.” “Today, 1 in 4 dollars are in some form of ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) investing,” said Tensie Whelan, professor at NYU Stern and founding director of Stern’s Center for Sustainable…

A group of experts comprised of faculty from business and law schools, as well as other leaders in business, law and the nonprofit sectors, convened at NYU Stern for a two-day roundtable discussion on “Corporate Political Accountability: Corporate Political Spending and Risk in the Age of Trump.” The event focused on the issues raised in the Center for Political Accountability's report "Collision…

On Wednesday, Nov. 28, NYU Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business hosted a panel discussion entitled, “Impact Investing in the Creative Economy.” Moderated by Stern alumnus Ward Wolff (MBA '17), senior associate, Upstart Co-Lab, the panel featured several industry experts, including: Laura Callanan, founding partner, Upstart Co-Lab Sam Marks, executive director, New York City Office of the…

Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, delivered the 13th annual Haitkin Lecture, hosted by NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program. Jayaraman shared the policy-based origins and continued negative impact of low wages in the restaurant industry…

NYU Stern’s Business & Society Program hosted Innocence Project Staff Attorney Seema Saifee and Darryl Howard, who was exonerated after serving 24 years for a wrongful murder conviction, this fall. Addressing an audience of Stern undergraduate students, Saifee highlighted the role of racial discrimination, negligence and socioeconomic factors in the wrongful convictions of men and women and the…

As the international community gathered at the United Nations headquarters for the launch of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, NYU Stern, the UN Association of the USA and Business Council for the UN convened a solutions-focused lunch focusing on the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #17: “Partnerships for the Goals.” The event connected students and business leaders…