Stuart Hart is the Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University's Johnson School. He is one of the world's top authorities on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism for business strategy.
Before coming to the Johnson School, he taught strategic management and founded both the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP) at the University of Michigan. He has consulted or served as management educator for many corporations and organizations throughout the world.
Hart has published over 50 papers and authored or edited five books. He wrote the seminal article "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World," which won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, Hart also wrote the pathbreaking 2002 article "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid," which provided the first articulation of how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world.
Hart authored Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems (Wharton School Publishing, March 2005.) A second edition, "Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity" with a foreword by Al Gore, will be available in August 2007, (Wharton School Publishing).
Stuart Hart received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester, his Master's degree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
It began to occur to us that, well wow... you know, I mean what's missing and what's really needed is how does the corporate sector begin to really think about the actual bottom of the income pyramid. You know, it's one thing to start at the top and then move incrementally down to the next you know...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Stuart Hart Discusses Educational Background and Decision To Focus on Environmental Issues
Stuart Hart Discusses History of Environmentally Friendly Practices Being Seen As A Cost
Stuart Hart States Society Is Beginning To Understand That Environmental Choices To Not Mean Financial Trade-Offs
Stuart Hart States Entrepreneurship Is About Fulfilling Needs In A New and Creative Way
Stuart Hart States Product Stewardship Involves Thinking About Entire Life Cycle of the Product
Stuart Hart Discusses Challenge of Enabling All Humans On The Planet To Live The Capitalist Dream
Stuart Hart States Concept of Beyond Greening Is Sustainable Enterprise Serving The Underserved
Stuart Hart States Appropriate Technology For Introduction To Underserved Is Not Always Low Tech
Stuart Hart States Large Corporations and Western Entrepreneurs Should Be As Involved As NGOs
Stuart Hart States University Focus On Topic of Sustainability Is Simply Another Avenue To Bring The Topic Into The Academic Setting
Stuart Hart States Sustainability Programs In The Business School Attract A More Diverse Pool of Applicants
Stuart Hart Discusses Vision Behind The Johnson School's Center For Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE)
Stuart Hart States SGE Offers Study Based Around Sustainable Innovation Learning Laboratories
Stuart Hart States lean Tech Initiatives Need To Focus On Commercialization Strategies
Stuart Hart Discusses Commercialization Opportunities In Blending Of Clean Tech and BOP
Stuart Hart Discusses Growth of Johnson School's Center For Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE)
