Articles
The Sustainability Sweet Spot
Environmental Quality Management - Winter 2007
By Andrew Savitz with Karl Weber
Business leaders with a superficial understanding of sustainability think of it as a distraction from their main purpose, a chore they hope can be discharged quickly and easily. "We're responsible corporate citizens, so let's write a check to the United Way or allow employees to volunteer for the local cleanup drive or a food kitchen and get back to work."
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Expecting corporate kindness
- July 25, 2006
By Andrew Savitz
AS THE MEDIA hype around Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth," begins to fade, the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" debuts, expanding the theme that business as usual can be hazardous to your planet...
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A Call to Mr. Ban Ki Moon: Realize the Potential for Business and the UN
Sustainable Development International - December 13, 2006
By Andrew Savitz
When Secretary General Designate Ban Ki-Moon officially takes charge as head of the United Nations in January, he will become the first Asian representative in thirty-five years to lead the organization. Replacing Kofi Annan, Ban has pledged to carry forward the departing Secretary General’s steps towards institutional reform, yet it remains to be seen how he will respond to perhaps the most important of Annan’s legacies: the mobilization of business and civil society through the UN Global Compact.
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CFOs can give us straight talk on sustainability
Financial Times - October 26, 2006
By Andrew Savitz
Corporate sustainability - the idea that profits can and should go hand in hand with social and environmental responsibility - has been around for a long time. Now, though, it has reached a tipping point. Nearly 70 per cent of chief executives of mid-sized to large companies believe that sustainability is vital to their profitability, and more than two-thirds say it will remain a high priority, according to recent global surveys by PwC of its clients.
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Interviews
Sustainability, the Sweet Spot and Business
Cornell University - Sustainable Enterprise Speaker Series
Triple Bottom Line Author Speaks Out
BizWise
By Jess Wells
Andrew Savitz, the author of "The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success," outlines his action-oriented guide to business sustainability.
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Sustainability Finds Its Sweet Spot
onPhilanthropy - April 9, 2008
By Elisabeth Anderson
Andy Savitz has found his sweet spot and he wants you to find yours, too.
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Andrew Savitz on the Sustainable Business
CIO Insight - July 10, 2006
By Sheena Mohan
How some companies are making social responsibility pay off.
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Virtue Rewarded
CFO Magazine - October 1, 2006
By Kate O'Sullivan
Companies are suddenly discovering the profit potential of social responsibility.
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Corporate Reputation: Where's Your "Sustainability Sweet Spot"?
Novita Issue Communications - June 18, 2007
Hosted by Ernie Landante
Can companies adopt sustainable business practices and increase profits? Andrew W. Savitz, author of The Triple Bottom Line, points to several companies, including GE and Pepsi, that are reaping profits that Savitz believes come from a sustainable business culture.
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A Big Picture Podcast with Andrew Savitz
Total Picture Radio
Hosted by Peter Clayton
A Big Picture Podcast with Andrew Savitz; author, consultant, and former head of PricewaterhouseCooper's Sustainability Business Services practice.
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Sustentabilidade é uma oportunidade para inovar
Gazeta Mercantil - August 7, 2007
By Caio Neumann
O especialista Andrew Savitz diz que as empresas estão sob pressão para mudarem. A sustentabilidade é um conceito que veio para ficar no mundo dos negócios.
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Packaging Industry Hits its Sweet Spot
Packaging Strategies - September 30, 2007
Keynote speaker Andy Savitz, author of "The Triple Bottom Line" and a leading voice on business sustainablity issues, set the tone by reporting that companies have a sudden urgency to develop "new products, new processes, new markets, new models of business, new methods of reporting" that envelope sustainability strategies.
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