Profits and Sustainability shows that financial and environmental sustainability are difficult to reconcile as the growing environmental awareness of consumers, businesses and the state has been accompanied by cumulative environmental deterioration. It should be read by anyone seeking to better understand the shifting boundaries of corporate sustainability that is, what businesses can and cannot accomplish in the fight against environmental degradation and
climate change.
Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School. He holds degrees of MA and PhD from Cambridge University, and taught previously at the London School of Economics, and Cambridge and Reading Universities in Britain, and at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He researches the evolution, impact, and responsibility of global business, and is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and and of the
Royal Historical Society. His books include Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to Twenty First Century (Oxford University Press, 2005), Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Beauty Imagined (Oxford University Press,
2011)