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Publisher: Beacon Press (1997)
ISBN: 0807047090
In a book that will generate controversy, Daly turns his attention to the major environmental debate surrounding "sustainable development." Daly argues that the idea of sustainable development--which has become a catchword of environmentalism and international finance--is being used in ways that are vacuous, certainly wrong, and probably dangerous. The necessary solutions turn out to be much more radical than people suppose. This is a crucial updating of a major economist's work, and mandatory reading for people engaged in the debates about the environment.
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Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (2005)
ISBN: 1591396190
Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "opportunity for highly profitable growth." The only reason more big companies don't set sail for them, they suggest, is that "the dominant focus of strategy work over the past 25 years has been on competition-based red ocean strategies"-i.e., finding new ways to cut costs and grow revenue by taking away market share from the competition. With this groundbreaking book, Kim and Mauborgne-both professors at France's INSEAD, the second largest business school in the world, aim to repair that bias.
Publishers Weekly
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2001)
ISBN: 0393321932
Eco-economic theory calls for harmony between our economy and natural resources. Our current, untenable, profit-focused economic model, says Brown ("Building a Sustainable Society"), depletes forests, oil, farmland, topsoil, water, atmosphere and species beyond a sustainable level.
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Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (2000)
ISBN: 1578512336
With concern for environmental issues growing, defining the controversial relationship between business and the environment has become even more essential. "Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment" brings together the latest management thinking on the role of the environment in business, and offers a general management perspective that will help outline the critical environmental issues your organization may face.
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Publisher: Peregrinzilla Press (1999)
ISBN: 0964595354
"Mid-Course Correction" is the personal story of Ray Anderson's realization that businesses need to embrace principles of sustainability, and of his efforts, often frustrating, to apply these principles within a billion dollar corporation that is still measured by the standard scorecards of the business world. While the path has proved to have many curves, Interface is demonstrating that the principles of sustainability and financial success can co-exist within a business, and can lead to a new prosperity that includes human dividends as well.
Chelsea Green Publishing
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Publisher: Back Bay Books (2000)
ISBN: 0316353000
A critique of the present economic system and its destructive effects on natural assets, coupled with ideas about how to make it work better. The Lovinses, directors of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a resource policy center, and business author Hawken ("The Ecology of Commerce", 1993, etc.) merge their talents and experiences here to offer practical guidelines for reducing the environmental messes made by the industrial world, including pollution, transportation congestion, erosion, and wasted energy of all types.
Kirkus Reviews
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Publisher: Harper Business; Reprint edition (1994)
ISBN: 0887307043
Hawken ("Growing a Business") touches on a raw nerve here. How might millions of people live and work in a complex business environment while causing "as little suffering as possible to all and everything around us?" Hawken, no Luddite, believes that "we need a design for business that will ensure that the industrial world as it is presently constituted ceases and is replaced with human-centered enterprises that are sustainable producers."
Publishers Weekly
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Publisher: New Society Publishers (2002)
ISBN: 0865714517
Bob Willard…recites a number of familiar stories to make the case that better environmental performance lowers costs and raises revenue. In the final 13 pages of "The Sustainability Advantage," Willard gets down to the burning question. “If the business case is so good, why are smart executives not taking advantage of it?”
Business and the Environment
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Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2002)
ISBN: 1576751279
"What We Learned in the Rainforest" teaches that nature isn’t just a source of resources for business—it is a powerful model for superior business performance in the emerging economy. The authors show that the old model of business—the machine model that pitted business against nature—is growing obsolete. In the emerging economy, businesses excel when they emulate what they once sought to conquer. They maximize performance as they become like nature, like a complex living system. By moving beyond the industrial machine model, and applying the dynamic principles of the rainforest instead, business can learn how to create more profit than ever, and to do so more sustainably.
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