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Book Description

Proven, Profitable, and Sustainable

For the past fifty years, leaders in the business world have believed that their sole responsibility is to maximize profit for shareholders. But this obsessive focus was a major cause of the abuses that nearly sunk the global economy in 2008. In this analytically rigorous and eminently practical book, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub offer a more complete form of capitalism, one that delivers superior financial performance precisely because it mobilizes and generates human, social, and natural capital along with financial capital. They describe how the model has been implemented in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed financial capitalism's shortcomings, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, field-tested alternative.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Colin Mayer, Former Dean, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and Martin Radvan, President, Mars Wrigley Confectionery
  7. Introduction: Uprooting the Dysfunctions of Financial Capitalism
  8. Chapter 1: The Expanded Meaning of Capital
  9. Chapter 2: Five Indicators for Measuring Human Capital and Well-Being at Work
  10. Chapter 3: Measuring Social Capital— How Communities Affect Growth
  11. Chapter 4: Measuring Natural Capital— Making More from Less
  12. Chapter 5: Recalibrating Financial Capital— How Mutuality Drives Profits
  13. Chapter 6: Maua—Social and Human Capital: A Case Study
  14. Chapter 7: Coffee—Natural Capital: A Case Study 127
  15. Chapter 8: Remunerating the New Forms of Capital
  16. Conclusion: Repositioning Business as a Restorative Healing Power
  17. Afterword by Lim Siong Guan, former Group President, Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund (GIC)
  18. Notes
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Index
  21. About the Authors
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