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

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

by Andrew Savitz (Author), Karl Weber (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Jossey Bass
Published: 04 Aug 2006

ISBN 10: 0787979074
ISBN 13: 9780787979072

Media Reviews
...Savitz makes a lively and cogent case that no company or manager can afford any longer to ignore the world around them...a thoughtful guide for managers who still harbour doubts about the point of sustainability... (Financial Times, July 5, 2006) ...excellent new book... a compelling case for change. (The Marketer, January 2007) Important issues, well presented, that deserve a wide audience (Long Range Planning, July 2007)
Author Bio
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.