Improving Alpha: Tensie Whelan Discusses Extracting Value from Sustainability
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For those working on asset allocations in today’s volatile markets, are there ways to differentiate between sustainability and ESG? Furthermore, how do you create a harmonization in a triple bottom-line approach that deals with job growth and creation, taking care of your employees and the planet, and ensuring profitability?
In this episode, Michael Oliver Weinberg, co-founder, Improving Alpha Podcast Series, is joined by Tensie Whelan, Clinical Professor of Business and Society and Director, Center for Sustainable Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU, to discuss more on the topic of sustainability, and how companies can look at their own profiles in the market when considering risk, competitor analysis, competitor advantage and more.
Tensie further discusses:
- Her background including work with the Rainforest Alliance, building that organization to a $50 million in revenue across 60 countries.
- Embedding sustainability as a core to any business strategy which equates to driving better financial performance.
- What is the “Rosie Return on Sustainability Investment” and the 9-mediating factors that drive better performance as it relates to the core of your business.
- The ability of companies to quantify sustainability risk, and how a scale can be applied for investors looking at a given sector.
- What is the materiality matrix, transparent reporting (against KPIs as well as international standards), and strategic imperative of the company as it relates to sustainability investment methodology
- And more
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About Our Guest:
Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Clinical Professor for Business and Society, is the Founding Director of the 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.
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