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.
Rainforest Alliance President Joins NYU Stern to Head New Sustainable Business Center
This post was republished in its entirety from original source clearadmit.com.
Resolving to better train business leaders to take on the environmental and human challenges facing the world, New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business today announced that it will ring in 2016 by launching a new Center for Sustainability Business. Environmental activist and steward Tensie Whelan, currently the president of the Rainforest Alliance, will join the Stern faculty to establish and lead the new center in January 2016.
Whelan, who earned her bachelor’s degree from NYU in 1980, returns to her alma mater with more than 25 years of experience confronting environmental and sustainability issues at the local, national and international level. She helped grow the Rainforest Alliance’s budget from $4.5 million to $50 million, recruiting 5,000 companies in more than 60 countries to transform their engagement with sustainability through partnership with the organization. Continue reading…
