This book can be considered “the Portable MBA for the field of environmental management.” It addresses the management tools and functions used to facilitate environmental strategies in business, and strategic responses to environmental issues. This text is organized around the three classic global needs shared by both business strategists and environmental leaders: Achieving Compliance, Recognizing Business Opportunity, and Answering Public Expectations.
Book Details:
- Author: Bruce Piasecki
- ISBN: 9780471169727
- Year Published: 1999
- Pages: 368
- BISAC: BUS000000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/General
About the Book and Topic:
This book can be considered “the Portable MBA for the field of environmental management.” It addresses the management tools and functions used to facilitate environmental strategies in business, and strategic responses to environmental issues. This text is organized around the three classic global needs shared by both business strategists and environmental leaders: Achieving Compliance, Recognizing Business Opportunity, and Answering Public Expectations.
Takes a holistic professional approach to addressing environmental issues by looking at all the different functions of a business such as accounting, IT, product development and developing cross functional strategies. * Contains cases that respect the full range of management responsibilities, from basic civil laws of government to those facing competitors and customers. * Provide skills needed to operate in the new world of corporate environmental strategy. * Shows what leaders throughout the field are saying on strategic environmental management by including insights and lessons learned from the field.
About the Author
Bruce W. Piasecki, PhD, is Director of the Environmental Management Program, Lally Management Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also the founder and President of the American Hazard Control Group, an environmental management consulting firm whose clients include the American Plastics Council, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Hoechst Celanese, the United States Congress, and the EPA. He is the editor of the Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy and the author of many influential books and articles on environmental management issues. Other prestigious titles by Dr. Piasecki include Beyond Dumping, America’s Future in Toxic Waste Management, and In Search of Environmental Excellence which received the Nature Society Book of the Year Award for 1990. Kevin A. Fletcher is the author of Environmental Management and Business Strategy: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century, published by Wiley. Frank J. Mendelson is the author of Environmental Management and Business Strategy: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century, published by Wiley.