CSB Past Events

CLICK HERE TO APPLY The Sustainability Career Boot Camp, hosted by the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, will provide students with an intensive training program to prepare them for a variety of sustainability-oriented careers. The students will learn concepts such as applying a sustainability lens to problem solving, developing sustainability strategies, understanding key tools and…

Join the Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) to learn more about the new MBA Opportunity Zone Challenge, focused on sustainability and real estate development. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. The Opportunity Zone Challenge will run from February to April 2019 and award cash prizes to three winning teams, with a grand prize of $10,000.  Challenge Background: Inspired by a new and…

CLICK HERE TO RSVP  Event Description: $12 trillion of assets under management in the US – 25% of all investable assets -- are aligned to be socially responsible and to drive impact.  85% of millennial investors are focused on doing well financially while doing good in the world.  Increasingly they – like other impact investors – seek to advance diversity, equity and inclusion through their…

The NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, the NYU Department of Environmental Studies, and the Environmental and Humanities Initiative are joining together to host a panel on Sustainable Protein. As factory farming receives more and more headlines for its impacts on the environment and animal welfare, some businesses have turned toward Sustainable Protein. Join the Center for Sustainable…

Please join JPMorgan Chase and the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business for a lunchtime presentation on what every finance major should know about Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors for investing. Topics Covered: -          What is ESG? -          Why increased interest in ESG? -          The three things every finance major should know about Sarah Nash, VP, JPMorgan…

CLICK HERE to watch the LiveStream of this event. Learn from our expert panelists: How do investors best invest for societal impact in the U.S. and abroad? What tools do they use to identify investment opportunities and assess impact? What are specific examples of exciting, impactful investments? Does impact investing result in lower returns? The panel discussion will be followed by audience Q&A…

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…

On September 25, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and SustainAbility co-hosted a panel discussion entitled, "Innovating Investments for Climate Resilience." The discussion explored new ways of evaluating climate risk and innovative approaches to incorporating climate risk and resilience into investment products and decision-making. The panel, which was moderated by Professor Tensie…

Please join us for a fireside chat with Bryan Garcia, President and CEO of Connecticut Green Bank, and Professor Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Bryan Garcia is the president and CEO of the Connecticut Green Bank the nation’s first state-level green bank. The green bank model demonstrates how smarter use of public resources can attract more private investment…

We invite you to join us at the 2018 Ashok C. Sani Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence Lecture: The Role of Sustainability in Today’s Business World delivered by Alan Murray, Chief Content Officer of Time Inc. and President of Fortune Magazine.  Alan Murray is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of experience in covering politics and economics. Currently, Murray is the 17th…