Balancing Green
When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To)
$52.84
- Hardcover
568 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2018
Summary
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability.The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes-f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262037723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262037726 |
| Author: | Yossi Sheffi, Edgar Blanco |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 568 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 952g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Balancing Green |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A must-read…. A well-researched book that cuts through many of the fallacies and wishful thinking that surrounds sustainability.
—ForbesSustainability is a hot button issue, and Sheffi’s book is likely to spur debate.
—Supply Chain Management ReviewA book that aims to help companies decide what types of sustainability efforts make sense for them from a business standpoint and what efforts do not.
—DC Velocity—
About The Author
Yossi Sheffi
Yossi Sheffi is Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He has worked with leading manufacturers and logistics service providers around the world on operations and strategy issues and is the author of three award-winning books- The Resilient Enterprise- Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage, Logistics Clusters- Delivering Value and Driving Growth, and The Power of Resilience- How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected, all published by the MIT Press.
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