The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can TooThe 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. |
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... Bangor Hydroelectric , the util- ity company that owned and operated several of the dams on the Penobscot River ... Hydro to represent the com- pany's best interests as defined by management . And Bangor Hydro believed in taking a ...
... Bangor Hydroelectric , the util- ity company that owned and operated several of the dams on the Penobscot River ... Hydro to represent the com- pany's best interests as defined by management . And Bangor Hydro believed in taking a ...
Page 115
... Bangor Hydro's stance provoked an equally unyielding attitude from the company's adversaries . As Hall quickly discovered , his background as an envi- ronmentalist wasn't enough to soften the hostility directed against his company ...
... Bangor Hydro's stance provoked an equally unyielding attitude from the company's adversaries . As Hall quickly discovered , his background as an envi- ronmentalist wasn't enough to soften the hostility directed against his company ...
Page 117
... Bangor Hydro sold nine dams and power plants - in fact , practically all of its power - generating assets along with some trans- mission - line rights to PPL Corporation , a utility firm based in Allentown , Pennsylvania , and formerly ...
... Bangor Hydro sold nine dams and power plants - in fact , practically all of its power - generating assets along with some trans- mission - line rights to PPL Corporation , a utility firm based in Allentown , Pennsylvania , and formerly ...
Contents
A Business Fable for Our Times | 3 |
How to Achieve LongTerm Business Success | 21 |
The Age of Accountability | 41 |
Copyright | |
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