Beyond the Triple Bottom Line: Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business Model (MIT Press)

The book's writing is engaging and thought-provoking -- equally as valuable in a boardroom as in a classroom. It is well past time to move beyond doing less bad and toward creating value for all stakeholders based on business models formulated with the objective of achieving what is good and just. Hee, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)At Clinton Devon Estates we have survived over 700 years of transformation. Szekely and Dossa are right to emphasize the responsibility of those who lead organizations to always look ahead, consider what new generations will want, and deliver it. (John Varle

. Francisco Szekely is Sandoz Foundation Professor of Leadership and Sustainability at IMD Business School in Lausanne, where he is also Director of the Global Centre for Sustainability Leadership.Zahir Dossa is is the CEO and Co-founder of Function of Beauty

That is, businesses should go beyond the usual short-term focus on minimizing harm while maximizing profits. Instead, businesses on the path to sustainability should, from the start, focus on addressing a societal need and view profitability not as an end but as a means to support the sustainable organization.Szekely and Dossa explore key problems organizations face when pursuing a sustainability agenda. Many recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. Szekely and Dossa argue that businesses and organizations need to move away from the business case for sustainability toward a sustainable business model. Each chapter presents one of the eight steps, describes a business dilemma for sustainability, provides a theoretically grounded strategic framework, offers case studies tha