A must-read guide for business leaders who want to profit from the Green Revolution and avoid its many pitfalls This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, Green to Gold demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business strategies. Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston provide clear 'how to' advice for making sense of environmental challenges, and they offer detailed case examples of how companies achieve both environmental and business success—establishing an eco-advantage in the marketplace. Green to Gold is written for executives at all levels and businesses of all kinds. It guides the business leader through pollution and natural resource management issues and the growing pressure from outside stakeholders to strive for 'sustainability'. While highlighting successful strategies, Esty and Winston also examine why environmental initiatives may fail despite best intentions. With practical suggestions for incorporating environmental thinking into core business strategy, and with a clear focus on execution—not legalisms, platitudes and abstractions—Esty and Winston present a thoughtful, pragmatic roadmap that shows how companies can use environmental pressures and responsibilities to spark innovation and drive growth.

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Business & Money

Esty, Daniel C.

Winston, Andrew S.

Business Culture

Yale University Press

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities. Part manifesto and part how-to guide, this concise and engaging book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. You'll discover how to: -Get lean: Amp up your energy and resource efficiency to survive tough times -Get smart: Use environmental data about products and supply chains for competitive advantage -Get creative: Rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as "How might we operate with no fossil fuels?" -Get going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company's, the customer's, and the world's environmental challenges Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy.

Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top

Economics

Harvard Business Review Press

We live in a fundamentally changed world. It’s time for your approach to strategy to change, too. The evidence is all around us. Extreme weather, driven by climate change, is shattering records all over the planet. Our natural resources are in greater demand than ever before as a billion more people enter the global middle class, wanting more of everything. Radical transparency is opening up company operations and supply chains to public scrutiny. This is not some futuristic scenario or model to debate, but today’s reality. We've passed an economic tipping point. A weakening of the foundations of our planetary infrastructure is costing businesses dearly and putting our society at risk. The mega challenges of climate change, scarcity, and radical transparency threaten our ability to run an expanding global economy and are profoundly changing business as usual.” But they also offer unprecedented opportunities: multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play, and the winners of this new game will profit mightily. According to Andrew Winston, bestselling author (Green to Gold) and globally recognized business strategist, the way companies currently operate will not allow them to keep up with the currentand futurerate of change. They need to make the Big Pivot. In this indispensable new book, Winston provides ten crucial strategies for leaders and companies ready to move boldly forward and win in this new reality. With concrete advice and tactics, and new stories from companies like British Telecom, Diageo, Dow, Ford, Nike, Unilever, Walmart, and many others, The Big Pivot will help you, and all of us, create more resilient businesses and a more prosperous world. This book is the blueprint to get you started.

The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World

Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold, shows how companies generate lasting value – cutting costs, reducing risk, increasing revenues, and creating strong brands – by building environmental thinking into their business strategies. Green to Gold is written for executives at every level and for businesses of all kinds and sizes. Esty and Winston guide leaders through a complex new world of resource shortfalls, regulatory restrictions, and growing pressure from customers and other stakeholders to strive for sustainability. With a sharp focus on execution, Esty and Winston offer a hard-hitting yet inspiring road map that companies can use to cope with environmental pressures and responsibilities while sparking innovation that will drive long-term growth. Green to Gold is the new template for global CEOs who want to be good stewards of the Earth while simultaneously building the bottom line. “Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how business leaders can address environmental issues in the new economy, a world where companies win by integrating company strategies with social challenges, rather than treating economics and social as separate and different.” – Michael E. Porter, Professor, Harvard Business School

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Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold, shows how companies generate lasting value – cutting costs, reducing risk, increasing revenues, and creating strong brands – by building environmental thinking into their business strategies. Green to Gold is written for executives at every level and for businesses of all kinds and sizes. Esty and Winston guide leaders through a complex new world of resource shortfalls, regulatory restrictions, and growing pressure from customers and other stakeholders to strive for sustainability. With a sharp focus on execution, Esty and Winston offer a hard-hitting yet inspiring road map that companies can use to cope with environmental pressures and responsibilities while sparking innovation that will drive long-term growth. Green to Gold is the new template for global CEOs who want to be good stewards of the Earth while simultaneously building the bottom line. “Green to Gold provides the definitive thinking on how business leaders can address environmental issues in the new economy, a world where companies win by integrating company strategies with social challenges, rather than treating economics and social as separate and different.” – Michael E. Porter, Professor, Harvard Business School

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to end before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities. Part manifesto and part how-to guide, this concise and engaging audio book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. You'll discover how to: � Get lean: Amp up your energy and resource efficiency to survive tough times. � Get smart: Use environmental data about products and supply chains for competitive advantage. � Get creative: Rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as �How might we operate with no fossil fuels?� � Get going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company's, your customers', and the world's environmental challenges. Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy.

Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge From the Downturn On Top

Gildan Media

From the Back Cover\nEl ex Presidente mundial de Unilever, que aumentó la rentabilidad de sus accionistas en un 300%, al mismo tiempo que la compañía ocupó la posición número 1 del mundo en materia de sostenibilidad durante once años consecutivos, revela por primera vez cómo hacerlo. En colaboración con Andrew Winston, una de las voces más inspiracionales del mundo en temas de sostenibilidad empresarial, Paul Polman, muestra a los líderes empresariales cómo enfrentarse a los mayores y más urgentes desafíos de la humanidad ―el cambio climático y la desigualdad― y construir, de este modo, un negocio próspero. En este manual honesto y directo, Polman y Winston revelan los secretos del éxito de Unilever y abren el telón de algunas de las cúpulas empresariales más poderosas del mundo. Net Positive sostiene con audacia que las empresas del futuro se beneficiarán solucionando los problemas del mundo, no creándolos. Juntos, los autores desmontan los mitos empresariales más extendidos: desde la idea de que la única función de las empresas es maximizar los beneficios, hasta la ingenua esperanza de que la responsabilidad social corporativa salvará a nuestra especie del desastre. Su visión es que estos enfoques están destinados al fracaso. En cambio, muestran a los líderes empresariales cómo hacer que sus compañías actúen con valentía y tengan un “impacto positivo neto”, es decir, que prosperen devolviendo al mundo más de lo que reciben. Las empresas Net Positive dan rienda suelta a la innovación, crean confianza, atraen al mejor talento, emocionan a los clientes y se aseguran un éxito duradero. Todo ello contribuyendo a crear sociedades más fuertes e inclusivas y un planeta más sano. «Sanen al mundo primero ―argumentan― y como resultado satisfacerán a sus inversores». ¿Es este beneficio para la empresa y la humanidad demasiado bueno para ser verdad? No lo creas. Los directores generales más inteligentes del mundo ya están llevando a sus organizaciones por el camino del “Net Positive” y se están beneficiando de ello. ¿Crees que puedes permitirte quedarte atrás?

Net positive

Polman, Paul

Profit

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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top

The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge From the Downturn On Top

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