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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing-Acumen's practice of "doing well by doing good." Nineteen years later, there's been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Building anti-racist companies by design creates great places to work for all. Business leaders who are ready to take a bold stance to make the world better for their employees, consumers, and community: read this book. This book is not apolitical. This book is explicitly anti-racist. This book takes the stance that Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA rights are human rights, people of all abilities deserve respect and access, and people of all genders...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument-that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems-is more relevant and resonant than ever.
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Author
Publisher
McGraw Hill
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Our society is at a crossroads. It is no longer enough to have the best product or the most value add for your customers. Today consumers are considering more than just product quality and price. They are looking at how your company aligns with their values, how tapped into the social climate you are, and how authentic your social stances appear. To increase revenue and seize the competitive edge, your organization needs to embrace social causes...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's most respected leaders, former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty overcame childhood and financial struggles to embark on a groundbreaking career that took her from entry-level engineer to eight years as the first woman CEO of an iconic global company. Forty years in business and public advocacy taught Rometty the transformative power of leadership that blends authenticity, relationships, and curiosity with vision, rigor, and conviction. In...
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Capitalism is broken, but corporate social responsibility, divestment, impact investing, and government intervention won't fix it. Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis examine how we can change the way corporations work to make the world a better place"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"James O'Toole, an expert on ethical leadership, analyzes the complicated history of businesspeople who attempted to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organization practices. He tells the largely forgotten stories of men and women who adopted forward-thinking business practices designed to serve the needs of their employees, customers, communities, and the natural environment." --
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The looming issue of automation is one of the more commonly discussed problems facing the American economy -- but it is not the only one. Big business has done much to accrue wealth for itself, while leaving the people behind. Our education system is inherently unequal, breaking along race and class lines. Hostile immigration policies keep would-be workers of today and tomorrow away. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote: "a long habit of not thinking...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place. Here, Yunus...
30) Street smart sustainability: the entrepreneur's guide to profitably greening your organization's DNA
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Go Green While Making Green: You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process-from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress. Nuts-and-bolts guidance helps you make continuous, cost-effective improvements and shift the prevailing business culture by infusing green practices...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A social media expert with global experience with many of the world's biggest brands-including Nike, Toyota, and Motorola-Simon Mainwaring offers a visionary new practice in which brands leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty, and profit, while creating a third pillar of sustainable social change through conscious contributions from customer purchases.These innovative private sector partnerships answer perhaps the most pressing issue...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Why being radically connected with society is not just the right thing to do, it is an imperative for a company's bottom line. Connect is a practical manifesto that redefines the role of business in society. Through insightful analysis and vivid storytelling - ranging from ancient China, Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike of the late nineteenth century, to oil spills and privacy issues emanating from the technology of the twenty-first - Connect...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book uses Ecolab's century-long sustainability journey to distill key lessons that executives and leaders in any business can learn to make their organizations more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. These lessons reveal a 'sustainability tool-kit,' a set of actions that leaders can take over time to embed sustainable business practices into the DNA of the organization. The book builds on two models that frame the Ecolab...
Author
Publisher
Lioncrest Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Within every company, there lies a sleeping giant. Companies have long been viewed as either the primary cause of environmental destruction, or as a deep-pocketed funding source for people trying to confront it. But with their access to innovation, new technology, and intellectual firepower, most companies are built to tackle the challenges our planet faces in a way smaller organizations and foundations can't"--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
People are looking for a better way. Towering barriers are holding millions of people back, and the institutions that should help everyone rise are not doing the job. Crumbling communities. One-size fits all education. Businesses that rig the economy. Public policy that stifles opportunity and emboldens the extremes. As a result, this country is quickly heading toward a two-tiered society. Today's challenges call for nothing short of a paradigm shift...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Impact investment, the support of social and environmental projects with a financial return, has become a hot topic in the world's philanthropy and development circles, and is growing exponentially: in the next decade, it is poised to eclipse traditional aid by ten times. Yet for all the excitement, there is work to do to ensure it actually realizes its potential. Will impact investment empower millions of people worldwide, or will it just replicate...
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