Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good - Couverture rigide

Laszlo, Chris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804759634 ISBN 13 : 9780804759632

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Sustainable Value Featuring real-life stories, "Sustainable Value" equips managers with the skills to integrate sustainability into their core activities as they respond to such issues as climate change, ecosystem health, and global poverty.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A small but influential group of mainstream global industry leaders are now reinventing the role of business in society. They are shifting the focus away from minimizing negative impacts to offering new solutions to global problems that the public sector has been unable to tackle alone. In this new competitive environment, societal challenges such as climate change or the alleviation of global poverty are not only risks, but huge business opportunities, not only for niche players, but for mainstream business. These leaders are creating 'Sustainable Value' . They are creating it through the provision of value to both their shareholders and their stakeholders - an ever-growing list of diverse constituents impacted by the social, environmental, and financial performance of global business. In short, they are doing well by doing good. In this outstanding book, Chris Laszlo defines, illustrates, and shows how business can action Sustainable Value in three profoundly different ways. First, a management fable looks at the experiences of a dynamic business leader as she grapples with the new business realities of managing stakeholder, as well as shareholder pressures. Second, with the real thing - inside stories from some of the largest corporations in the world that are successfully integrating sustainability into their core activities, not only from a sense of moral correctness, but because it makes good business sense. And, finally, with frameworks, tools, and methods that will make sustainable value creation concrete for business practitioners everywhere. This book is a masterful synthesis - part novel and part executive briefing - a refreshing kind of prophetic pragmatism, helping leaders anticipate and see the future in the context of the actual. In Sustainable Value Chris Laszlo speaks with resounding clarity to the living challenges, the real dilemmas, and haunting questions of CEOs everywhere.

Revue de presse :

At a time when more and more business people are waking up to their contribution to environmental degradation and talking about the importance of moving toward sustainability, there is precious little in the business literature about how to do sustainability. Chris Laszlo has written a valuable guide that begins to fill the gap between talk and action. Read 'Sustainable Value', dispel the myth that environmental responsibility is expensive, and form a new vision of industry as part of the solution rather than a part of the problem; and more profitable at that, not less. Ray Anderson, Founder and Chairman, Interface, Inc. --Interface

In the swelling sea of sustainability literature, Chris Laszlo s Sustainable Value offers an island of clarity and focus. By combining compelling storytelling with actual cases and tools, he shows how mainstream companies can build competitively superior strategies by solving the world s social and environmental problems. Prepare to cast the trade-off myth adrift once and for all. Stuart Hart, S.C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell University --Cornell University

Integrating sustainability into business activities is increasingly driving innovation and entrepreneurship. Global industry leaders are leapfrogging traditional EH&S and CSR approaches in favor of new business models that create value for shareholders and for society. Sustainable Value is a bold and inspiring read for managers who want the story of sustainability as well as compelling case studies accompanied by a structured guide to managing in the new business context. Luk Van Wassenhove, The Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing, INSEAD --Insead

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0804759634
• ISBN 13: 9780804759632
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208