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About the Author . . . xi
Acknowledgments . . . xii
Preface: Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States . . . xxiii
Foreword: Fisk Johnson, Chairman and CEO, S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. . . . xxvi
PART ONE: MAPPING THE TERRAIN 1
Prologue: Reinventing Capitalism for the Post-Crisis World . . . 3
The Great Disruption . . . 4
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times . . . 5
Environmental Meltdown? . . . 8
The Demise of Development . . . 10
Implications for Corporations . . . 13
The Fork in the Road . . . 15
Chapter 1: From Obligation to Opportunity . . . 19
The Great Trade-Off Illusion . . . 21
The Greening Revolution . . . 23
Shattering the Trade-Off Myth. . . . 25
Breaking Free of Command-and-Control . . . 26
Beyond Greening . . . 30
Raging Against the Machine . . . 33
Smart Mobs Versus Smart Globalization . . . 35
Becoming Indigenous . . . 38
The Road Ahead . . . 41
Overview of the Book . . . 43
Chapter 2: Worlds in Collision . . . 51
The Three Economies . . . 53
Collision Course . . . 60
New Lenses on the Global Market . . . 62
Developed Markets: Reducing Corporate Footprint . . . 65
Emerging Markets: Avoiding the Collision . . . 68
Traditional Markets: Serving Real Needs . . . 72
The Value Proposition . . . 76
Chapter 3: The Sustainable Value Portfolio . . . 79
Sustainability Buzzwords . . . 80
Elements of Shareholder Value . . . 81
The Buzzword Sort . . . 84
Connecting the Dots: The Sustainable Value Portfolio . . . 87
Charting the Sustainable Value Portfolio . . . 97
The Road to Sustainability . . . 99
Pursuing the White Space. . . . 104
PART TWO: BEYOND GREENING 109
Chapter 4: Clean Technology and Creative Destruction . . . 111
Continuous Improvement Versus Creative Destruction . . . 112
From Textile Dyes to Biomaterials . . . 118
Using Carbon Dioxide to Change the World . . . 120
Developing an Ecomagination . . . 122
Whole-Systems Thinking . . . 124
Reinventing the Wheels . . . 128
Technologies of Liberation . . . 131
Eating Your Own Lunch . . . 133
Chapter 5: Innovation from the Bottom-Up . . . 137
On the Horns of a Dilemma . . . 138
Birth of BoP. . . 139
The Tip of the Iceberg . . . 141
Creative Creation . . . 146
Driving Innovation from the Base of the Pyramid . . . 149
Connecting the World. . . 151
Food, Health, and Hope? . . . 155
Power to the People . . . 158
The Great Convergence . . . 162
A New Development Paradigm . . . 165
Taking the Great Leap . . . 167
Chapter 6: Raising the Base of the Pyramid . . . 171
BoP Pioneers . . . 172
It’s the Business Model, Stupid . . . 173
Assessing Sustainability Impact . . . 189
Village Phones: The Triple Bottom Line . . . 192
The MNC Advantage . . . 196
A Common Cause . . . 197
PART THREE: BECOMING INDIGENOUS 201
Chapter 7: Broadening the Corporate Bandwidth . . . 203
Learning from Ladakh . . . 204
The Post-Development Challenge . . . 207
Radical Transactiveness. . . 211
Fanning Out: Extending the Scope of the Firm . . . 213
Fanning In: Integrating Diverse and Disconfirming Information . . . 217
Expanding Our Concept of the Global Economy . . . 222
From Alien to Native . . . 224
Chapter 8: Developing Native Capability . . . 227
Next Generation Strategies and Skills . . . 229
Engage First, Design Second . . . 230
Coinvent Custom Solutions . . . 234
Fail Small, Learn Big . . . 237
Fly Under the Radar . . . 239
Work with Nontraditional Partners . . . 242
Build Social, Not Legal, Contracts . . . 244
Moving Beyond the Multinational Model . . . 248
Chapter 9: Re-Embedding Innovation Strategy . . . 253
Comparing Apples and Oranges . . . 254
Toward a Base of the Pyramid Protocol . . . 257
Learning by Doing . . . 262
Taking the Initiative on Water . . . 267
The Three Big Challenges . . . 273
Leading the Next Great Transformation . . . 276
Chapter 10: Building the Sustainable Global Enterprise . . . 281
Making It Happen in the Real World . . . 283
Aligning the Organization . . . 293
Building the Cathedral . . . 300
Postscript . . . 302
Epilogue: Looking Forward . . . 307
Draining the Swamp . . . 308
The Next Tsunami . . . 310
Who Will Be the Twenty-First Century Watchdog? . . . 312
Index . . . 315
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