1st Edition

Sustainable Value How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good

By Chris Laszlo, Patrick Cescau Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

A small but influential group of mainstream global industry leaders are now reinventing the role of business in society. They are shifting the focus away from minimizing negative impacts to offering new solutions to global problems that the public sector has been unable to tackle alone. In this new competitive environment, societal challenges such as climate change or the alleviation of global... Read more
ForewordPatrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive Officer, UnileverForewordTyler J. Elm, Senior Director, Corporate Strategy & Finance,Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.IntroductionPart I: Deena’s storyChapter 1: Life at the topChapter 2: Turning pointChapter 3: Rebirth of the sustainable companyPart II: Mainstream companies that are doing well by doing goodChapter 4: The new competitive environment Chapter 5: DuPont Chapter 6: Wal-Mart Chapter 7: Lafarge Chapter 8: NatureWorks LLC, a subsidiary of Cargill  Part III: The sustainable value toolkit Chapter 9: Introduction to sustainable value Chapter 10: The eight disciplines Chapter 11: Putting it all together  Postscript. Business as an Agent of World Benefit: How the Holy Grail of business – innovation – can be magnified through the power of sustainable value creation Professor David Cooperrider, Founder and Chairman, Center of Business as an Agent of World Benefit, with Ante Glavas, Executive Director, and Nadya Zhexembayeva, Associate Director

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Laszlo, Chris; Cescau, Patrick