Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance

by Paine, Lynn Sharp

• ISBN13: 9780071427333
• ISBN10: 0071427333
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-29
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Chosen by Library Journalas one of the Best Business Books of 2002 "Lynn Paine has an optimistic analysis of the need for--and the value of--bringing ethical values into business decisionmaking."--Paul A. Volcker "This book presents a way of broadening the role of the corporation in our society, an interesting and exciting role." --John C. Whitehead, former chairman, Goldman Sachs

Author Biography

Lynn Sharp Paine, Ph.D., J.D. is a John G. McLean Professor at the Harvard Business School and is a member of The Conference Board's Blue-Ribbon Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
The Turn to Values	p. 1
Does Ethics Pay?	p. 29
Time for a Reality Check	p. 55
The Corporation's Evolving Personality	p. 81
A Higher Standard	p. 107
The New Value Proposition	p. 133
Performing at a Higher Level	p. 167
A Compass for Decision Making	p. 199
The Center-Driven Company	p. 227
App.: Emerging Standards	p. 251
Notes	p. 257
Index	p. 295
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