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Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts (Business) (9781576754863): Marc J Epstein, John Elkington, Herman B Leonard: Books. 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 CrossroadsMaking 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 DepotMarc 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, Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbilityMarc 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, CeresEpstein 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 UniversityMarc Epstein usefully reviews the current state of the art on how to make sustainability concerns 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 EnvironmentEpstein 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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