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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too (PDF eBook) Revised and Updated


The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too (PDF eBook) Revised and Updated

eBook by Savitz, Andrew

The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too (PDF eBook)

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ISBN:
9781118333174
Publication Date:
21 Oct 2013
Edition:
Revised and Updated
Publisher:
Wiley
Imprint:
Jossey-Bass
Pages:
352 pages
Format:
eBook
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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too (PDF eBook)

Description

The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementationupdated for today's businesses To ensure business success, companies must embrace sustainable management. Firms need to find the overlap between business interests and the interests of society and the environment before they can secure a lasting competitive edge. By making the case for sustainability as a fundamental business practice, The Triple Bottom Line became an instant classic when first published in 2006, showing a generation of business leaders how to find their sustainability sweet spotwhere profitability merges seamlessly with the common good. Now updated with ground-breaking stories of successes and failure, this revision of The Triple Bottom Line is a critical resource for all managers and leaders. Features in-depth success stories of sustainability practices at major firms such as Wal-Mart, GE, DuPont, American Electric Power, and PepsiCoand shows why companies such as BP and Hershey continue to fail Draws on Andy Savitz's 25 years of pioneering consulting and research in the field Includes all-new reporting and analysis on the practice of sustainability and the triple bottom line in business today, providing new insights on where sustainability is headed The Triple Bottom Line is essential reading for any firm to meet the challenge of creating lasting value for both shareholders and society.

Contents

Introduction 1 Part One The Sustainability Imperative 11 1 A Bitter Aftertaste: Hershey Struggles to Master the Sustainability Challenge 13 2 The Sustainability Sweet Spot: How to Achieve Long-Term Business Success 33 3 The Age of Sustainability 53 4 Business Responds 76 5 The Backlash Against Sustainability 92 6 Renewing the Penobscot: A More Productive Use of Capital 107 Part Two How Sustainability Can Work for You 129 7 Where Do You Stand Today? Your Sustainability Self-Assessment 131 8 Sustainability Jiu-Jitsu: Turning Short-Term Challenges into Opportunities 145 9 Shaping Your Sustainability Strategy 156 10 Implementing Your Sustainability Program 175 11 Managing Stakeholder Engagement 190 12 Dealing with Special Stakeholder Challenges 211 13 Measuring and Reporting Your Progress 237 14 Aligning Your Culture to Support Sustainability 256 15 The Emerging Multipurpose Company 270 Appendix: Creating a Sustainability Management System 289 Notes 300 Acknowledgments 314 About the Authors 320 Index 323

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