Big Business, Big Responsibilities: From Villains to Visionaries: How Companies Are Tackling the World's Greatest Challenges

Big business is often painted as the villain when it comes to the environment or social wellbeing. There is certainly good evidence of what some businesses have done wrong in the past. But times are changing. Leading businesses are often now the visionaries: leaders in the fight against climate change, protectors of human rights and supporters of international development.

Big Business, Big Responsibilities shares the inside track on why some of the world’s best known brands are doing this not as philanthropy but as a core part of business strategy: protecting the environmental systems they depend on, building consumer trust and creating new markets to ensure long term success.

This book describes the surprising speed with which business is recognizing that it will thrive best in societies that succeed and identifies the major challenges that still need to be overcome for business to make its full contribution.

Andy Wales is Global Head of Sustainable Development for SABMiller, one of the world's largest brewers. He is a board member of a number of key global water initiatives, and also leads a strategy encouraging local enterprise development across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009 and in 2010 was appointed a London Sustainable Development Commissioner. He has previously been Sustainability Director for Severn Trent plc and for Interface, Inc.
Matthew Gorman is Director of Corporate Responsibility & Environment at BAA Ltd, the UK's leading airport operator and an expert on climate change policy. He is deputy chair of the UK aviation industry's sustainability strategy ('Sustainable Aviation). Prior to BAA, Matthew worked at Forum for the Future, a leading UK not-for-profit organization. He has worked extensively advising FTSE 100 companies on corporate responsibility.
Dunstan Hope is Managing Director of the Information and Communications Technology practice at Business for Social Responsibility, a global non-profit business membership organization that advises Fortune 500 companies. Prior to BSR Dunstan spent five years in the sustainability team at British Telecommunications. Dunstan has worked extensively on human rights, corporate accountability and technology issues in Europe, the USA and Asia. He has played a leading role in the establishment of multiple human rights initiatives in the technology industry.