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

\*\*The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementation—updated 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 spot—where 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 PepsiCo—and 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.\*\*Andrew W. Savitz\*\* heads Sustainable Business Strategies, a consultancy that assists organizations to improve their Triple Bottom Line. Previously, he was a lead partner in the sustainability services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He served as general counsel of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts and founded the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters. He is the author of \*Talent, Transformation, and the Triple Bottom Line\* (Jossey-Bass, 2013). Savitz's online newsletter, \*The Savitz Report,\* helps companies leverage their human capital to accelerate the transformation to sustainability. Savitz lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.For more information, please visit getsustainable.net and thesavitzreport.com\*\*Karl Weber\*\* is a writer and editor who specializes in business, politics, current affairs, history, and social issues. Among many other books, he coauthored the \*New York Times\* bestseller \*Creating a World Without Poverty\* with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus. He lives in Irvington, New York, with his wife, Mary-Jo Weber.\*\*The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementation—updated 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 spot—where 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 PepsiCo—and 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. 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, world renown expert on sustainability, 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. Savitz identifies and explains this new management concept in plain language, showing leaders in organizations of all sizes and industries exactly how they can benefit. He provides memorable stories and simple rules of the road to help companies find their triple bottom line. In the end, he shows that sustainability is a fundamental approach to management that lets businesses protect and grow the resources they need to succeed. In this second edition, Savitz provides new company examples throughout and introduces companies such Walmart that are leading in sustainability efforts, requiring their hundreds of thousands of suppliers to follow suit. He discusses how today many more businesses are joining the movement-especially medium and small companies-prompted by the rise of conscious consumers who are demanding corporate responsibility and using social networking to influence sustainability efforts. Savitz also discusses how developing economies like China and India present both problems and solutions to sustainability issues

The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementation—updated 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 spot—where 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 PepsiCo—and 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.

The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementation—updated 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 spot—where 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 PepsiCo—and 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.

The classic guide to sustainability strategy and implementation—updated 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 spot—where 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... The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.