SUSTAINABLE VALUE:
How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
Chris Laszlo
with a Foreword by Patrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive Officer,
Unilever
208 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-906093-06-8
Published January 2008
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SUSTAINABLE VALUE:
How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
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 minimising 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 poverty are not only risks,
but huge business opportunities, not only for niche players, but for
mainstream business.
These leaders are creating 'Sustainable Value'. They are creating it
through the provision of value to both their shareholders and their
stakeholders - an ever-growing list of diverse constituents impacted by
the social, environmental and financial performance of global business.
In short, they are doing well by doing good.
In this outstanding book, Chris Laszlo defines, illustrates and shows
how business can action 'Sustainable Value' in three profoundly
different ways. First, a management fable looks at the experiences of a
dynamic business leader as she grapples with the new business realities
of managing stakeholder, as well as shareholder pressures. Second, with
the real thing - inside stories from some of the largest corporations
in the world that are successfully integrating sustainability into
their core activities, not only from a sense of moral correctness, but
because it makes good business sense. And, finally, with frameworks,
tools, and methods that will make sustainable value creation concrete
for business practitioners everywhere.
This book is a masterful synthesis - part novel and part executive
briefing - a refreshing kind of prophetic pragmatism, helping leaders
anticipate and see the future in the context of the actual. In
Sustainable Value Chris Laszlo speaks with resounding clarity to the
living challenges, the real dilemmas, and haunting questions of CEOs
everywhere.
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PRAISE
"In the swelling sea of sustainability literature, Chris Laszlo's
Sustainable Value offers an island of clarity and focus."
Stuart Hart, author of "Capitalism at the Crossroads"
"The sooner companies apply the principles set out in this book the
better placed they will be."
Patrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive Officer, Unilever
"Read 'Sustainable Value', dispel the myth that environmental
responsibility is expensive, and form a new vision of industry as part
of the solution rather than a part of the problem; and more profitable
at that, not less."
Ray Anderson, Founder and Chairman, Interface, Inc.
" 'Sustainable Value' is a bold and inspiring read for managers who
want the 'story' of sustainability as well as compelling case studies
accompanied by a structured guide to managing in the new business
context."
Luk Van Wassenhove, The Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing,
INSEAD
"Chris Laszlo's message is huge and simple: we are on the eve of one of
the greatest revolutions in management history..."
Professor David Cooperrider, Fairmount Mineral Professor of Social
Entrepreneurship; Founder and Chairman, Center of Business as an Agent
of World Benefit, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
Reserve University
"Chris Laszlo has done it again!"
Nancy J. Adler, Professor of International Management, McGill University
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Patrick J. Cescau, Group Chief Executive Officer, Unilever
Foreword
Tyler J. Elm, Senior Director, Corporate Strategy & Finance,Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc.
Introduction
PART I: DEENA'S STORY
Chapter 1
Life at the top
Chapter 2
Turning point
Chapter 3
Rebirth of the sustainable company
PART II: MAINSTREAM COMPANIES THAT ARE DOING WELL BY DOING GOOD
Chapter 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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