The triple bottom line : how today's best-run companies are achieving economic, social, and environmental success-and how you can too / Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.

Selling Hershey: a business fable for our times -- The sustainability sweet spot: how to achieve long-term business success -- The age of accountability -- Business responds -- Embracing accountability -- The backlash against sustainability -- Renewing the Penobscot: "a more productive use of capital" -- Where do you stand today? your self-assessment -- Shaping your sustainability strategy -- Launching your sustainability program -- Managing stakeholder engagement -- Dealing with special stakeholder challenges -- Measuring and reporting your progress -- Creating a culture of sustainability -- Epilogue: the future of sustainability.

Your company's sweet spot is where its financial interests coincide with social and environmental interests. It is called sustainability, and Fortune 100 companies like DuPont, PepsiCo, and Toyota are beginning to see it as the most transformative business concept in years. Responding to growing pressure from regulators, environmentalists, and socially concerned shareholders, these and other firms are charting solutions that will reap environmental and social rewards along with financial ones. Companies that defy the principles of sustainability find themselves suffering significant setbacks to their business objectives. The Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from sustainability. His is a hard-line approach to bottom-line fundamentals that is re-making companies around the globe.