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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... Long - Term Thinking Many of the stories we've told in this book involve trade - offs between short - term costs and long - term benefits . The word sustain- ability implies long - term thinking , because it focuses on how your company ...
... Long - Term Thinking Many of the stories we've told in this book involve trade - offs between short - term costs and long - term benefits . The word sustain- ability implies long - term thinking , because it focuses on how your company ...
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... longer - term thinking is becoming more apparent . Much will have to change for long - term thinking to supplant quarter - by - quarter thinking in American business . U.S. business leaders need to learn from their counterparts in Asia ...
... longer - term thinking is becoming more apparent . Much will have to change for long - term thinking to supplant quarter - by - quarter thinking in American business . U.S. business leaders need to learn from their counterparts in Asia ...
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... long - term thinking . Sustainable companies find ways to think and act in their long - term interests , despite enormous pressure to act only in the short - term interest of their investors . • Does the company think about the long ...
... long - term thinking . Sustainable companies find ways to think and act in their long - term interests , despite enormous pressure to act only in the short - term interest of their investors . • Does the company think about the long ...
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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The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving ... Andrew Savitz Limited preview - 2006 |
The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving ... Andrew Savitz Limited preview - 2012 |
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