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

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John Wiley & Sons, Jun 29, 2012 - Business & Economics - 320 pages
The 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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Contents

Part Two HOW SUSTAINABILITY CAN WORK FOR YOU
127
Epilogue THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY
235
Appendix A GLOSSARY AND KEY ACTION STEPS
253
Appendix B FOR FURTHER READING
265
Notes
267
Acknowledgments
283
The Authors
289
Index
291
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About the author (2012)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can Too
AuthorAndrew Savitz
ContributorKarl Weber
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN0470534664, 9780470534663
Length320 pages
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Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Management
  
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