The Future of Value: How Sustainability Creates Value Through Competitive Differentiation

Acknowledgments

Like any endeavor that requires great effort, this book is the result of the combined contributions of many individuals and institutions.

The Future of Value would not exist without the kindness of strangers turned friends. I often contacted sustainability and strategy practitioners “out of the blue.” More than 80 percent of these folks not only responded but allowed me to interview them. In no particular order, my eternal gratitude goes out to Julie Bisinella at Australia & New Zealand Bank; Dan Cherian at Nike; Brian Larnerd and Lauren Garvey at Hitachi; Richard Verney and Michelle Hamm at Monadnock Paper; Santiago Gowland at Unilever; Lynnette McIntire and Ed Rogers at UPS; Tim Mohin at AMD; Ben Packard at Starbucks (and Ann ...