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Acknowledgments

From Both of Us

We want to acknowledge Fred Myers and Bernie Glassman, who founded the enterprises we are now privileged to lead. There would be no Rebuild Resources and no Greyston Bakery to write about if these entrepreneurs had sat around for the last twenty-five years waiting for a book to come out. They just did it, and we’re extremely grateful they did.

Nor would this book exist without the huge contributions of a team of MBA candidates from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute on Bainbridge Island, Washington—the nation’s first Sustainable Business MBA program. These guys conducted all the interviews and background research for the book, gratis, just because they wanted to advance the field. They did that on top of grad ...