Chris Laszlo, Ph.D., is the author of Sustainable Value: How the
World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good (2008) and
The Sustainable Company (2003, paperback 2005). He is an Associate
Professor at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School
of Management, where he is the Faculty Research Director at the
Fowler Center for Sustainable Value. Chris is also the co-founder
and Managing Partner of Sustainable Value Partners, LLC, an
advisory services firm specialized in sustainability for business
advantage.
Nadya Zhexembayeva, Ph.D., is the Coca-Cola Chair of Sustainable
Development at IEDC-Bled School of Management, the European
business school based in Slovenia, where she teaches leadership,
organizational design, and sustainability strategy. Nadya currently
serves as Vice-President of Challenge:Future, a global youth think
tank. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Fowler Center
for Sustainable Value at the Weatherhead School of Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. Nadya is also an Associate
Partner of Sustainable Value Partners, LLC.
"Sustainability thought leader Chris Laszlo and his co-author
Zhexembayeva's new book is a magnificent and highly readable tour
de force of business strategy and innovation that shows how
sustainability is a natural and important progression in thinking
about business value. They make a crucial distinction between
earlier piecemeal ('bolt-on') approaches to sustainability and the
newer generation of strategies that embed sustainability within the
core business of the enterprise. The book is a must-read for all
serious business executives and managers. It illustrates key points
through case studies and examples that provide a clear
understanding of how to execute on a strategy of embedded
sustainability."—Dr. Ram Nidumolu, Founder and CEO, InnovaStrat,
Inc.
"Business strategy and competitive advantage are essentially about
choice and discipline, though rising ecological and social
pressures have left many organizations around the world floundering
in terms of what those strategic choices and discipline should look
like. Smart leaders will quickly seize on Laszlo and Zhexembayeva's
blueprint for embedded sustainability as the foundation for the new
economic logic of competitive advantage. Embedded sustainability is
the essential discipline for market leaders."—Mason Carpenter, M.
Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership, University of
Wisconsin–Madison
"We are in the midst of a tectonic shift: The industrial corporate
model of the 19th century is dying and being replaced by the
sustainable enterprise model of the 21st century. In this new world
of declining resources, radical transparency, and increasing
expectations, 'corporate social responsibility' will no longer be
enough. In this book, Laszlo and Zhexembayeva show clearly that the
defining characteristic of the successful 21st century corporation
will be its ability to embed sustainability in every fibre of its
being. And, even more importantly, embedded sustainability will
hold the key to future profit and value creation."—Stuart L. Hart,
S. C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, Cornell
University and author of Capitalism at the Crossroads
"Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva have not only created a
compelling guide for businesses to do well while doing good through
Embedded Sustainability. They have also affirmed the critical
importance of linking rigorous analytical developments to the
testing ground of engagement with real-world problem solving. This
book should be required reading in the programs from which future
business leaders will emerge."—Rebecca Chopp, President, Swarthmore
College
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