Tensie Whelan
NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
Tensie Whelan is Distinguished Professor of Practice for Business and Society and Founding Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.
Engaging stakeholders can help deliver sustainability strategy, create value for the company
Businesses must map and assess the importance and influence of stakeholder groups to implement their sustainability goals. Read More
The first step toward an embedded sustainability strategy: Pinpoint key ESG issues
The initial building blocks in creating an embedded strategy are establishing material ESG factors and stakeholders and developing a materiality matrix. Read More
Beginner or embedder? Here’s a 4-step tool to assess your company’s sustainability maturity
Companies can embed sustainability into their core business strategies through internal transformation and new tools and processes. Read More
6 trends driving businesses to double down on sustainability
With progress on issues such as deforestation accelerating — thanks to new policies from the likes of Staples, Breyers and Avery Denison — what will it take to realize truly transformative sustainability? Read More
Gucci to Taco Bell, sustainability labels are thriving. So what?
The president of Rainforest Alliance, a prolific certifier of sustainable goods, explores the real-world impact of sustainability labels. Read More
7 innovations driving certified-sustainable markets of the future
A Rainforest Alliance workshop found common threads emerging among pioneers in sustainable production and sourcing. Read More
Ecolabeling and the power of uncommon collaborations
There is a growing body of evidence showing that sustainability certification is spawning far-reaching changes in production and land use practices, supply chains and in the way businesses operate. Read More
Beyond Recycling: Responsible Paper Purchasing
Companies can make an enormous difference in the global environment and forest communities by adopting strict purchasing policies. Read More
Chiquita Reaps Better Bananas
During the past decade, Chiquita Brands International, the company that invented the banana industry, has been gradually reinventing it, one bunch at a time. By Tensie Whelan Read More