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The Triple Bottom Line Andrew W. Savitz

The Triple Bottom Line By Andrew W. Savitz

The Triple Bottom Line by Andrew W. Savitz


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Summary

The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement.

The Triple Bottom Line Summary

The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - And How You Can Too by Andrew W. Savitz

The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from sustainability. His is a hard-line approach to bottom-line fundamentals that is re-making companies around the globe.

The Triple Bottom Line Reviews

...Savitz makes a lively and cogent case that no company or manager can afford any longer to ignore the world around them...a thoughtful guide for managers who still harbour doubts about the point of sustainability... (Financial Times, July 5, 2006) ...excellent new book... a compelling case for change. (The Marketer, January 2007) Important issues, well presented, that deserve a wide audience (Long Range Planning, July 2007)

About Andrew W. Savitz

Andrew W. Savitz knows about sustainability from working as one of the lead?partners in the Sustainability Business Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he helped firms both large and small increase their profitability and responsiveness to environmental and social issues. Before that, he was a senior environmental enforcement official for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Savitz now runs Sustainable Business Strategies, an independent advisory firm based in Boston. Karl Weber is an author specializing in business, social, and political topics. He coauthored the business best-seller The Power of We with Jonathan Tisch, CEO of Loews Hotels, as well as How to Grow When Markets Don't with acclaimed management consultant Adrian Slywotzky.

Table of Contents

Introduction. PART ONE: THE SUSTAINABILITY IMPERATIVE. 1. Selling Hershey: A Business Fable for Our Times. 2. The Sustainability Sweet Spot: How to Achieve Long-Term Business Success. 3. The Age of Accountability. 4. Business Responds. 5. Embracing Accountability. 6. The Backlash Against Sustainability. 7. Renewing the Penobscot: A More Productive Use of Capital. PART TWO: HOW SUSTAINABILITY CAN WORK FOR YOU. 8. Where Do You Stand Today? Your Self-Assessment. 9. Shaping Your Sustainability Strategy. 10. Launching Your Sustainability Program. 11. Managing Stakeholder Engagement. 12. Dealing with Special Stakeholder Challenges. 13. Measuring and Reporting Your Progress. 14. Creating a Culture of Sustainability. Epilogue: The Future of Sustainability. Appendix A: Glossary and Key Action Steps. Appendix B: For Further Reading. Notes. Acknowledgments. The Authors. Index.

Additional information

GOR002516872
9780787979072
0787979074
The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - And How You Can Too by Andrew W. Savitz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
20060701
320
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