![]() ![]() Laszlo Zsolnai directs the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. To learn more about Future Earth’s work in sustainable business, check out the Finance and Economics Knowledge-Action Network.ĭaniel Strain: In the introduction to your book, you write that the core problem of unsustainable businesses “can be seen to lie in the corporation itself.” What do you mean by that? Zsolnai recently talked to Future Earth about his book and the careful balance that “progressive” businesses must walk between making money and safeguarding the future of the planet and people.įuture Earth collaborates with a wide range of societal partners, including leaders in the private sector, to design new pathways for making the world more sustainable. Chapters delve into the progress made, and obstacles facing, companies like the Dutch bank Triodos and Unilever, a consumer goods corporation that ranks 150 on the Fortune Global 500 list. It explores cases of how businesses, from medium-sized companies to gigantic multinationals, have tried to buck those “rootless” business models – adopting strategies for fostering renewable energy, employing people with disabilities and more. ![]() Progressive Business Models, which Zsolnai edited with Eleanor O’Higgins of University College Dublin, is the first in a series of books that the publishing company Palgrave-Macmillan is releasing in partnership with Future Earth. He writes in an introduction to the new book Progressive Business Models: Creating Sustainable and Prosocial Enterprise that modern businesses “are rootless in ecological and social senses, displaying no real interest in the places they happen to function.” ![]() Zsolnai is a professor of business ethics at the Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary and co-chair of the Future Earth Finance and Economics Knowledge-Action Network. László Zsolnai doesn’t mince words when talking about the impacts of big business on the planet. ![]()
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