
The Triple Bottom Line
How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too
Jossey-Bass (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2006
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-7879-7907-2 (ISBN)
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Praise for The Triple Bottom Line
"Whether you are a corporate manager, investor, consumer, or public official, this book will change your view of how corporations can succeed for themselves and for society. Savitz combines vision and practical advice in an elegant presentation."
--George Stephanopoulos, chief Washington correspondent, ABC News anchor, This Week with George Stephanopoulos
"Informative, persuasive, and practical, containing valuable advice for anyone seeking a more responsible and profitable approach to business."
--Steve Reinemund, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo
"The main challenge of sustainability is how to take it from concept to action. Andy Savitz communicates in plain language what sustainability is and how everyone in the organization can help achieve it."
--Charles O. Holliday, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer, DuPont
"An engaging mix of powerful ideas and practical advice. Values matter and Savitz shows how profitability and responsibility can and must go hand in hand."
--Michael Morris, chairman, president, and chief executive officer, American Electric Power
"At long last a plain English, action-oriented guide to business sustainability illustrated with practical examples from world-class companies."
--Richard Cavanagh, president, The Conference Board, Inc.
"Andy Savitz gets it. He also happens to be witty, sensible, and a good writer as well as a good business strategist--sort of a modern Ben Franklin. That makes this book a joy to read as well as indispensable for businesspeople who wish to succeed in this new age."
--Walter Isaacson, president and chief executive officer and former chairman, Aspen Institute; author, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
"A bold and readable foray into this complex subject. Readers will come away enlightened."
--Kert Davies, research director, Greenpeace US
Reviews / Votes
".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)More details
Edition
1., Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 16.3 cm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
529 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-7907-2 (9780787979072)
Schweitzer Classification
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Andrew Savitz
The Triple Bottom Line
How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too, Revised and Updated
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Persons
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.
Content
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.