The Financial Times Guide to Sustainable Business: How to lead and deliver a sustainable strategy

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-292-43558-9
Verlag: Pearson Education Limited

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten

There is no more widespread,importantand timely issue than sustainability. Global economic growth has triggered a climate emergency, along with the equally existential threats arising from deforestation, overuse of freshwater and biodiversity loss. In parallel, the sustainability of economic activity is threatened by a range of social factors, including pandemic, human rights abuse, loss of data privacy, political tension, and inequalities in wealth and opportunity across gender,raceand geography.

Business leaders are increasingly being called upon to navigate these uncertain waters. They are expected to achieve dramatic reductions in carbon emissions,wasteand other environmental impacts, while also contributing a positive social impact and being held to account for their performance on equality, diversity and inclusion. Yet business education has traditionally focused on economic drivers alone strategy, marketing, operations, finance, and the generation of financial profit and shareholder value.

helps business leaders to frame, understand and act upon the environmental and social challenges faced by their organisations.As with all FT Guides, the approach is comprehensive, practical, and authoritative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnstone-Louis, Mary

Barker, Richard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Why do corporations exist?  3. The most urgent leadership challenge of our times  4. Why nature matters to business, and what to do about it 5. Making business work for everyone  6. Walking the talk 7. What to do next, and how  8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Barker is Professor of Accounting and Deputy Dean at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. An expert in corporate reporting, Richard's research and teaching interests span financial accounting and sustainability reporting. Richard also serves on the Financial Reporting Advisory Board (FRAB, which advises HM Treasury on government financial reporting) and on the Expert Panel of Accounting for Sustainability (A4S, a Prince of Wales charity).  

Mary Johnstone-Louis is Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where she is Programme Director of The Ownership Project and Head Tutor for the Oxford Leading Sustainable Corporations programme. In addition, she supervises MBAs from our global cohort at both Green Templeton College and St Benet's Hall and develops research-based educational curriculum for family owners, Next Gens, and U/HNWIs on an ongoing basis. Dr Johnstone-Louis is a World Economic Forum Global Futures Council Fellow, a member of the Jury of the IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award, and Chair of the Board of B Lab UK.