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Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 415 pages : illustrations, charts, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By turns pragmatic and inspiring, SPEED & SCALE intersperses Doerr's wide-ranging analysis with firsthand accounts from Jeff Bezos, Christiana Figueres, Al Gore, Mary Barra, Bill Gates, and other intrepid policy leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and activists. A launchpad for those who are ready to act now, this book is geared to leaders in every walk of life. With a definitive action plan, the latest science, and a rising climate movement on our...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing-Acumen's practice of "doing well by doing good." Nineteen years later, there's been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 414
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 154 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Corporate social responsibility has been defined as "the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society." Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) just window dressing or is it a contradiction in terms? In this Very Short Introduction, Jeremy Moon shows that CSR holds much more value than it first appears, and examines how it has come of age in recent years. Illustrating the sorts of CSR investments companies make, the ways in which they...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Purpose and profit are powerful human motivators. Combined, this power can change the world. WEconomy is your guidebook to the greatest evolution in business since the assembly line. Discover the secret to achieving purpose with profit in your career and company, all while driving positive impact. Do you crave more meaning in your job? This book is your roadmap. Are you seeking to inspire employees? CEOs are discovering that purpose is the key to...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the world's most respected leaders, former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty overcame childhood and financial struggles to embark on a groundbreaking career that took her from entry-level engineer to eight years as the first woman CEO of an iconic global company. Forty years in business and public advocacy taught Rometty the transformative power of leadership that blends authenticity, relationships, and curiosity with vision, rigor, and conviction. In...
6) The business solution to poverty: designing products and services for three billion new customers
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Right now, the number of people living on $2 or less a day is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world's greatest challenge; they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically and effectively, businesses can earn handsome profits while helping to solve one of the world's most intractable problems. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 250 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument-that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems-is more relevant and resonant than ever.
Containing updated...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 226 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." By harnessing the energy of profit-making to the objective of fulfilling human needs, social business creates self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth even as they produce goods and services that make the world a better place. Here, Yunus...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
Description
In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI - the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself - is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xvii, 261 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and he tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Greed Gone Good: A Roadmap to Impact Investing brings the how-tos of impact finance to a broad-based audience of investors, from the individual to the institutional. Written in an engaging, jargon-free style and loaded with practical advice, it explores the pitfalls and potential of the burgeoning impact revolution - the increasingly widespread belief that business and financial leaders should weigh social value as well as financial value in all...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
viii, 134 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The looming issue of automation is one of the more commonly discussed problems facing the American economy -- but it is not the only one. Big business has done much to accrue wealth for itself, while leaving the people behind. Our education system is inherently unequal, breaking along race and class lines. Hostile immigration policies keep would-be workers of today and tomorrow away. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote: "a long habit of not thinking...
Author
Publisher
ASQ Quality Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xv, 191 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book is an introduction to developing and implementing a successful program in the domain of sustainability and social responsibility. The reader is exposed to financially, environmentally, and socially responsible objectives that are supported by strategies and achieved by clear tactics that have measurable outcomes.
The reader is introduced to methods of implementing technologies and practices and will also learn how to measure the consequent...
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