Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts - Couverture rigide

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 Crossroads --Cornell University

Marc 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, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur, SustainAbility --SustainAbility

Marc 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, Ceres --Trillium Investment

Most companies today have some commitment to corporate social responsibility, but implementing these initiatives can be particularly challenging. While a lot has been written on ethical and strategic factors, there is still a dearth of information on the practical nuts and bolts. And whereas with most other organizational initiatives the sole objective is improved financial performance, sustainability broadens the focus to include social and environmental performance, which is much more difficult to measure.

Now updated throughout with new examples and new research, this is a complete guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives. It draws on Marc Epstein’s and new coauthor Adriana Rejc Buhovac’s solid academic foundation and extensive consulting work and includes best practices from dozens of companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa. This is the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice and making sure they accomplish their goals.