Corporation 2020 (HB) by Pavan Sukhdev

About The Book

Key Features The book is very accessibly written and it tackles corporate greed among other things. It provides workable solutions to effect change in corporate behaviour About the Book: Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World A hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a more equitable, sustainable future! 'Business as usual' isn't working. There is an emergingconsensus that all is not well with today's market-centric economicmodel. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half-centuryand pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leavestoo many people unemployed, creates ecological scarcities andenvironmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and thepoor. In Corporation 2020, Pavan Sukhdev lays out a sweeping newvision for tomorrow's corporation: one that will increase humanwell being and social equity, decrease environmental risks andecological losses, and still generate profit. Sukhdev illustrateshis vision with examples ranging from Infosys's creation of humancapital to Citibank's having to change its project finance policydue to rainforest destruction. From its insightful look into thehistory of the corporation to the thoughtful discussion of thesteps needed to craft a better corporate model, Corporation 2020offers a hopeful vision for the role of business in shaping a moreequitable, sustainable future. About the Author: Pavan Sukhdev Pavan Sukhdev is Founder-CEO of GIST Advisory, a specialistconsulting firm which helps governments and corporations discover,measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and humancapital. He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, where he wasawarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship and wrote his book'Corporation 2020'. Earlier, he was Special Adviser and Head ofUNEP's Green Economy Initiative, and lead author of their report"Towards a Green Economy". He was also Study Leaderfor the G8+5commissioned project on The Economics of Ecosystems andBiodiversity ("TEEB").