Reviews
Soundview Executive Book Summaries
"One of the 30 Best Business Books of the Year"
Boston Globe
Success extends well beyond the bottom line
By Cecil Johnson, Mcclatchy Newspapers
In "The Triple Bottom Line," Savitz uses the word "sustainability" interchangeably with the term in the title. He argues that business should measure its success by criteria other than the traditional financial bottom line. Savitz says that businesses also need to measure their effects upon the overall economy, the community, and the environment...
Boston College
The Triple Bottom Line: Catching a Wave
By Philip H. Mirvis
Philosopher of Science Gunther Stent, after studying centuries of discoveries and inventions, observed that "many ideas are premature, but few are unique." One such idea is that business is responsible for and needs to take an accounting of the full range of its social, economic, and environmental outputs - what John Elkington terms the "triple bottom line."
Global Proxy Watch
...offers hands-on tips for how managers can turn corporate social responsibility into profit. Savitz seeds practical advice amid compelling real-life corporate stories.
Fortune Magazine
"Required reading"
800-CEO-Read: In Bubble Wrap
THE PERFECT BOOK...
Business Ethics Magazine
Savitz, formerly the lead partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers' sustainability practice, places his emphasis on big companies and corporate sustainability...
Financial Times
Every company has a sustainability sweet spot. This lively and cogent guide can help managers find ways to make shareholders' and society's interests overlap.
By Alison Maitland
Andrew Savitz recalls a conversation he had with a purchasing manager at a large telecommunications company. The man was adamant that social responsibility had nothing to do with his job, which was to buy products at the lowest price...
SocialFunds.com
The book lays out a framework for companies to follow on the path toward integrating the triple bottom line of economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
By Bill Baue
Andy Savitz, formerly of the Environmental and Sustainability Services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has written perhaps the best, most comprehensive book to date on corporate sustainability. Along with co-author Karl Weber, he coins new terms and concepts to describe the evolving concept of corporate sustainability...
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Sneak preview: The Triple Bottom Line by Andrew W. Savitz and Karl Weber
By Josephine Chennell
General Electric is acting on a huge opportunity. It's called climate change. Since 2002 the company's wind energy business, acquired from Enron, has quadrupled in revenue. Its fuel-efficient jet and locomotive engines, and natural gas turbines are becoming essential to customers in search of ways to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions...
Advance Praise
"Andy Savitz communicates in plain language what sustainability is and how everyone in the organization
can help achieve it."
Chad Holliday , Chairman & CEO, DuPont
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