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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
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
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"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"Making Sustainability Work moves CSR from the theoretical to the practical, offering real-life tools, processes and metrics for creating a true corporate framework for sustainability."Brad Shaw, Senior Vice President, The Home Depot"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, Chief Entrepreneur, 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"Epstein engages the issues at the frontier of CSR today--the practical questions of how to make it work in practice, in detail, day in and day out--so that what the firm wants its CSR policies to achieve actually turns out to be what the firm is accomplishing."Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, Co-Chair of the Initiative on Social Enterprise and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School/George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University"Marc Epstein usefully reviews the current state of the art on how to make sustainability concerns a part of corporate life. In a highly readable way he shows how words and intentions can be translated into real actions. We should be queuing up to read it."Anthony Hopwood, Former Dean and American Standard Professor, Said Business School, University of Oxford and Chairman, Prince of Wales Foundation for the Built Environment"Epstein provides a comprehensive guide to the implementation of sustainability strategies in organizations. Executives and managers interested in sustainability will benefit greatly from this book's rich examples and insightful analysis."Srikant M. Datar, Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor, Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School
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Format:Hardcover
If you are looking for a book that provides you with a comprehensive understanding what sustainability in an organization is about and how other companies handled this topic, your search is hereby over. There are a few books out there which only contain the theory about the sustainability concept. Epstein's "Making Sustainability Work" provides a well balanced mix between introducing theory and examples of best practices. Covering a lot of topics such as sustainable leadership style, sustainable cultural frameworks, risks associated with sustainability, social impacts, and reporting systems Epstein touches most of the areas that either impact the sustainability of an organization or are influenced by it.
However, sometimes I had the feeling that he could have gone more into depth. E.g. in chapter five, where he covers performance evaluation and reward systems, I missed a few deeper insights into what really motivates employees and aligns them with sustainable strategies. Furthermore, I missed the part about how to market sustainability internally and externally. Nevertheless, the given advices based on Epstein's experience are reason enough to read it, not to mention the most valuable best practice examples.
- Frank Roettgers, author of Going Green Together: How to Align Employees with Green Strategies
However, sometimes I had the feeling that he could have gone more into depth. E.g. in chapter five, where he covers performance evaluation and reward systems, I missed a few deeper insights into what really motivates employees and aligns them with sustainable strategies. Furthermore, I missed the part about how to market sustainability internally and externally. Nevertheless, the given advices based on Epstein's experience are reason enough to read it, not to mention the most valuable best practice examples.
- Frank Roettgers, author of Going Green Together: How to Align Employees with Green Strategies
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a very practical guide applying change management concepts to sustainability, a great set of tools and practical questionnaires to assess the readiness of the organisation to change.
Format:Hardcover
Management professor Mark J. Epstein conducted extensive academic research into the best social and environmental - that is, sustainability - practices of 100 companies worldwide. Drawing on that knowledge, he developed a "Corporate Sustainability Model" to show business leaders how to implement the right organizational processes to create, measure and promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) and "corporate social opportunity." The book is quite dense and academic, with much of its information packed into evocative but complex charts, so it seeks a professional audience. getAbstract recommends it to corporate decision makers as a well-informed, thorough manual.
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