MAKING SUSTAINABILITY WORK:
Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social,
Environmental and Economic Impacts
Marc J. Epstein
288 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-906093-05-1
Published January 2008
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MAKING SUSTAINABILITY WORK:
Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social,
Environmental and Economic Impacts
The best practices in corporate sustainability performance are no
longer the exclusive domain of companies like Ben & Jerry's or The Body
Shop, as they were a decade ago; now, large, multinational companies
like G.E. and Wal-Mart are leading the way with significant financial
and organizational commitments to social and environmental issues.
However, good intentions aren't enough. Whether motivated by concern
for society and the environment, government regulation, stakeholder
pressures, or economic profit, managers and strategists need to
continue making significant changes to more effectively manage their
social, economic, and environmental impacts - and to remain
competitive. The guidance they need to do that is in this book.
Marc Epstein has produced the ultimate "how-to-do-it" guide for
corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants,
and anyone else with an interest in actually making sustainability work
for organizations. With a growing number of corporate leaders asking
for urgent help in "getting this done," the timing of the book could
not be better.
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PRAISE
"Making Sustainability Work moves CSR from the theoretical to the
practical, offering real-life tools, processes and metrics for creating
a true corporate framework for sustainability."
Brad Shaw, Senior Vice President, The Home Depot
"Marc Epstein gives a fascinating and comprehensive overview of one of
the most important issues on today's corporate agenda - making
businesses more sustainable. While there are now signs of a much
greater willingness to try to do something, knowing what to do and how
to do it remains a challenge. It is here that Marc Epstein provides an
extremely helpful guide to the current state of the art on how to make
sustainability a part of corporate life. In a highly readable way he
shows how words and intentions can be translated into real actions. We
should be queuing up to read it."
Anthony Hopwood, Former Dean and American Standard Professor, Said
Business School, University of Oxford, and, Chairman, Prince of Wales
Foundation for the Built Environment
"While many have focused on what 'sustainability' means for business
strategy, precious few have paid attention to actually making it happen
inside large corporations. In this new book, Marc Epstein shines the
guiding light for those charged with implementing sustainability - the
necessary structures, systems, metrics, and performance measurements.
If your challenge is to overcome the corporate 'antibodies' to drive
innovation through sustainability, this is a must-read."
Stuart L. Hart, S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise,
Cornell University, and author of Capitalism at the Crossroads
"Marc Epstein is a successful, proven navigator in these complex new
risk and opportunity spaces. Fasten your safety belts - and make sure
your CEO and board have copies of this invaluable guide ready to hand."
John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility
"Marc Epstein has been teaching and writing around corporate
sustainability and reporting issues for decades, long before they
became trendy. This book is a very readable and easy-to-use compilation
of his experience and research. I highly recommend it for practitioners
in all levels of management or for stakeholders who should understand
what the company on the next block is or is not doing right."
Joan Bavaria, President, Trillium Investment and Co-Chair and Founder,
Ceres
"Epstein engages the issues at the frontier of CSR today - the
practical questions of how to make it work in practice, in detail, day
in and day out - so that what the firm wants its CSR policies to
achieve actually turns out to be what the firm is accomplishing."
Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Co-Chair of the Initiative on Social
Enterprise and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School/George F. Baker, Jr. Professor
of Public Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
"Epstein provides a comprehensive guide to the implementation of
sustainability strategies in organizations. Executives and managers
interested in sustainability will benefit greatly from this book's rich
examples and insightful analysis."
Srikant M. Datar, Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor, Senior Associate
Dean, Harvard Business School
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
John Elkington
Foreword
Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard
Introduction: Improving social and financial performance in global
corporations
Chapter 1
A new framework for implementing corporate sustainability
Chapter 2
Leadership and strategy for corporate sustainability
Chapter 3
Organizing for sustainability
Chapter 4
Costing, capital investments, and the integration of social risk
Chapter 5
Performance evaluation and reward systems
Chapter 6
The foundations for identifying and measuring social, environmental,
and economic impacts
Chapter 7
Implementing a social, environmental, and economic impact measurement
system
Chapter 8
Improving corporate processes, products, and projects for corporate
sustainability
Chapter 9
External sustainability reporting and verification
Chapter 10
The benefits of sustainability for corporations and society
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