Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?

Hardback

Main Details

Title Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Andrew J. Hoffman
By (author) John G. Woody
SeriesMemo to the CEO
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:115
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 121
Category/GenreBusiness strategy
Global warming
ISBN/Barcode 9781422121054
ClassificationsDewey:658.4083
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Harvard Business Review Press
Imprint Harvard Business Review Press
Publication Date 25 March 2008
Publication Country United States

Description

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. And increasingly, it's become a crucial business issue. How will you and your company respond? In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John Woody provide concise and reliable advice to help you answer this question. Drawing from their extensive experience working with organizations to address issues of environmental sustainability, the authors explain the impact of climate change on businesses and present a three-step process for developing an effective climate-change strategy: * Determine your company's "carbon footprint" and the ways in which potential changes in policy and markets will affect how you position your products and services. * Reduce your carbon footprint in ways that create new strategic advantages. * Gain a seat at the policy-development table so you can begin influencing policy decisions that will affect your company. Packed with cogent advice and examples of how organizations in a wide range of industries are adopting this process, Climate Change is your playbook for strategically addressing a complex problem that no company can afford to ignore. From our Memo to the CEO series -- solutions-focused advice from today's leading practitioners.

Author Biography

Andrew Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. John Woody is a Deal Associate at MMA Renewable Ventures, a renewable energy firm in San Francisco. Previously, he was the Business Solutions Fellow for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.