The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance

by Chris Laszlo

"This is not a book of fluff or feel-good case studies. It's a handbook for organizational change. The instructions are specific, potential pitfalls are highlighted, and the appendix provides a detailed discussion of outside evaluation tools." -GREEN MARKET REPORT
"The Sustainable Company offers some genuinely practical insights into what it really takes to improve stakeholder impacts." -ETHICAL CORPORATION
"Laszlo endeavors to translate social and environmental concerns into the language of marketing and corporate strategy...well-meaning executives will find much food for thought here." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"What Mr. Laszlo calls 'Planetary Ethics' or the integration of economic, environmental, social and high ethical objectives into long-term business strategy, is the new price of entry for corporate survival. Those who 'get' this and do it best will enjoy increasing shareholder value. I believe this book carries a critical message for today's corporate executives."-DEBORAH D. ANDERSON, PH.D., FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WORLDWIDE, THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
The Sustainable Company shows how to create value for shareholders while balancing responsibilities to society and the environment. Its step-by-step approach and tool-kit for managers make this book the solutions manual for the twenty-first-century manager.

Genres: Business

232 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Cal Lee · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked this up thinking it might be a useful read about how the business world talked about sustainability 20 years ago. It's not a good use of time. The only interesting anecdote was about the corporate values of environmental awareness and enjoying nature that Patagonia had instilled throughout the organization. In addition to some positive statements about BP and Dupont that do not stand the test of time, the writing is extremely dull, even by academic standards.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

A how to manual for implementing an environmentally/socially/economicially sustainable approach to business in your company. Not light reading, but useful if that's what you are about.