Stern to Establish New Center for Sustainable Business
The NYU Stern School of Business will establish a new Center for Sustainable Business in Jan. 2016. The new Center will be lead by Tensie Whelan, the current president of the Rainforest Alliance. Wheelman is also a leader in environmental activism and stewardship. The Center will help future and current business leaders to tackle environmental and human challenges they face in business and society today.
Whelan will serve as the director of the Center. He will partner with Stern faculty and leaders in business and civili society to develop new undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses that will emphasize real-world learning. The Center will also bring groups of companies from different sectors from all over the world together with stakeholders and experts to help to explore solutions for environmental and developmental challenges that they face.
