Episode 39: The Journey to Net Positive - with Paul Polman, IMAGINE

In this episode, CSB Director CB Bhattacharya is joined from Geneva, Switzerland by Paul Polman, ex-CEO of Unilever and co-founder of IMAGINE. As CEO of Unilever from 2009 - 2019, Paul demonstrated that a long-term, multi-stakeholder model goes hand-in-hand with excellent financial performance. He was also part of the team that set up IMAGINE in 2019 to galvanize industry leaders around the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In this episode, Paul and CB discuss insights from Paul's book, "Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take," including: • What it means for a company to be "net positive" • How defining your company’s purpose starts with finding your own purpose • Why the big challenges facing the world will require a new kind of leadership Learn more about this week's guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulpolman/ Sign up to receive weekly episodes right to your inbox: bit.ly/csbpodcastemail Submit your "Sustaining Sustainability" feedback and/or questions: bit.ly/csbpodcastfeedback This episode was researched, recorded, edited, and produced by Prof. CB Bhattacharya and CSB Team of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business: www.sustainablebusiness.pitt.edu Music: "Lively" by Dee Yan-Key From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC SA creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcod