I’m Stuart L. Hart, a leading authority on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. This blog will be a place for me to update you on some of my newest insights - based on the work I’m doing to help businesses take the Green Leap.
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A few years ago, I defined the concept of sustainable value; my work includes over 70 academic papers and several books.
Capitalism at the Crossroads, published in 2005, was selected by Cambridge University as one of the 50 top books on sustainability of all-time; the third edition of the book was published in 2010. I present new strategies for identifying sustainable products, technologies, and business models that will drive urgently needed growth and help solve social and environmental problems at the same time. I also argue that corporations are the only entities in the world today with the technology, resources, capacity, and global reach required.
Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World won the 1997 McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability.
With C.K. Prahalad, I wrote the path-breaking article: The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid which provided the first articulation of how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world.
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Hello Stuart,
I read your book, Capitalism at the Crossroads, in one day. I was so energised by it that I wrote two separate blog posts about it. I have some contentions that I initially thought might have run contrary to yours, but I think we may see eye to eye on more than I had initially believed after looking at your blog. The posts are here:
http://greenreserve.blogspot.com/2011/04/capitalism-at-crossroads.html
http://greenreserve.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-on-capitalism-and-profit.html
I've added your blog to my blogroll.
Cheers,
The Green Reserve