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Capitalism at the Crossroads:

The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems
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Pearson Education, Feb 15, 2005 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
Capitalism is indeed at a crossroads, facing international terrorism, worldwide environmental change, and an accelerating backlash against globalization. Companies are at crossroads, too: finding new strategies for profitable growth is now more challenging. Both sets of problems are intimately linked. Learn how to identify sustainable products and technologies that can drive new growth while also helping to solve today's most crucial social and environmental problems. Hart shows how to become truly indigenous to all markets -- and avoid the pitfalls of traditional 'greening' and 'sustainability' strategies. This book doesn't just point the way to a capitalism that is more inclusive and more welcome: it offers specific techniques to recharge innovation, growth, and profitability.
  

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Review: Capitalism At The Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, And Humanity

User Review  - Sheehan - Goodreads

Content and thematically very good, very positive, somewhat encouraging. This book was a referral from my father-in-law, who after years of fit and start discussions about the efficacy (or lack there ... Read full review

Review: Capitalism At The Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, And Humanity

User Review  - Ellen - Goodreads

I really liked this book because it lays out a blueprint for how businesses can adapt and profit from sustainable enterprise and working toward improving the quality of life for the global population. Read full review

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Contents

About the Author
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Capitalism at the Crossroads
Part One Mapping the Terrain
1 From Obligation to Opportunity
2 Worlds in Collision
3 The Sustainable Value Portfolio
4 Creative Destruction and Sustainability
5 The Great Leap Downward
6 Reaching the Base of the Pyramid
Part Three Becoming Indigenous
7 Broadening the Corporate Bandwidth
8 Developing Native Capability
9 Toward a Sustainable Global Enterprise
Index

Part Two Beyond Greening

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About the Author

Stuart L. Hart is one of the world's top authorities on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy. He is currently SC Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. Previously, he taught strategic management and founded both the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP) at the University of Michigan. His consulting clients range from DuPont and Hewlett-Packard to Procter & Gamble and Shell.

He wrote the seminal article "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World," which won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, Hart also wrote the pathbreaking 2002 article "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," which provided the first articulation of how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world.


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