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The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from sustainability. His is a hard-line approach to bottom-line fundamentals that is re-making companies around the globe.
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Where most books on sustainability focus on how societies can benefit if companies take a more responsible approach, Savitz' text centers on how companies can become more profitable by doing the right thing. The author first looks at how and why some well known corporations have begun to respond to pressures for greater accountability in recent years, and then offers corporate leaders a set of tools--must-do's, don't do's, and simple charts and lists--and stories demonstrating how to adjust business practices to achieve sustainability. Formerly head of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Sustainability Business Services, Savitz' is now with an independent advisory firm based in Boston. Jossey-Bass is an imprint of Wiley. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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