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Business Responds

We thought we could sit in Bentonville, take care of customers, take care of associates—and the world would leave us alone. It doesn't work that way anymore.

—H. Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart1

Sustainability Reaches the C-Suite

The current generation of leaders would appear to be well positioned to respond to today's sustainability crises. They are highly educated, globally conscious, technology savvy, and the most diverse generation of corporate chieftains in history. As they enter their forties and fifties and assume leadership in business, politics, social causes, academia, religion, the arts, and every other sphere, they bring along their generational sensibility, forged in the political, social, and economic crises of the ...

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