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Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change

This global survey of students from top-ranking business schools finds widespread consensus that business must lead on solutions to climate change and sustainability to attract and retain talent.

Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change

A new global study of more than 3,700 students at 29 top business schools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for Advanced Management, finds that:

  • Corporations unwilling to act on environmental issues are increasingly punished by the men and women they would like to recruit.
  • 44 percent of students are willing to accept a lower salary to work for a company with better environmental practices.
  • Conversely, about one-fifth of respondents expressed an unwillingness to work for companies with bad environmental practices no matter what the salary.
  • Students also overwhelmingly consider environmental action a profitable stance, noting that environmental protection will improve economic growth and provide new jobs.

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People & Partners

Stuart DeCew

Executive Director at Yale Center for Business and the Environment
MBA 2011
Master of Environmental Management 2011

Todd Cort

Senior Lecturer in Sustainability at Yale School of Management
Faculty Co-Director at Yale Center for Business and the Environment

Laura Franceschini

Sustainability Strategy & Operations at Google
Master of Environmental Management 2014

Heather Fitzgerald

Managing Director at Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Staff Lead, Business and the Environment Learning Community at Yale School of the Environment

Camino De Paz

Managing Director of Global Initiatives at Yale School of Management

Peter Bakker

President & CEO at World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Cass Walker Harvey

Founder at CWH Consulting
Senior Advisor at Time4Good
Resident Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment