54: Challenging the Profit Narrative in Business with Andrew Winston

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from Old Greenwich, Connecticut by Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies. It contains conversation highlights recorded in October at an exclusive C-Suite member event. Email us about future opportunities for yourself or a colleague to join us for peer-to-peer learning events like this one. Andrew is a globally-recognized expert on megatrends and how to build companies that thrive by serving the world. Named to Thinkers50 list of the top management thinkers in the world, he is the author of the bestsellers Green to Gold, The Big Pivot, and most recently, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More than They Take (co-authored with renowned CEO Paul Polman). Net Positive was one of the Financial Times’ Best Business Books of the Year. Andrew received degrees in economics, business, and environmental management from Princeton, Columbia, and Yale. Andrew Winston and Prof. Bhattacharya discuss:   ⚖️ Making the moral case for practical business climate solutions that lead to a thriving world, 📈 Demonstrating how ESG literacy is good for businesses to balance the needs of investors and other stakeholders, 💼 Creating dedicated roles to address the long term challenges climate change will present, the same way you would for other business challenges, and more...