Tensie Whelan is a clinical professor of business and society and the director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, and she sits on the advisory boards of Arabesque and Inherent Group. Elyse Douglas is a senior research scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and a former chief financial officer of Hertz. Their article is republished...

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