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"... The Sustainable MBA, offers a refreshing, straight-forward and highly readable tour of the challenges and opportunities facing businesses and employees in a rapidly changing and swiftly unfolding 21st century. ... This book offers the kind of advice people from all walks of life can appreciate and offers it in a down to earth and practical way. ..." --Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director UN, Environment Programme "...this book should be read by CEOs, CFOs, CSOs (the new breed of Chief Sustainability Officers) and everyone else in - or aspiring to enter - the…mehr

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"... The Sustainable MBA, offers a refreshing, straight-forward and highly readable tour of the challenges and opportunities facing businesses and employees in a rapidly changing and swiftly unfolding 21st century. ... This book offers the kind of advice people from all walks of life can appreciate and offers it in a down to earth and practical way. ..."
--Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director UN, Environment Programme
"...this book should be read by CEOs, CFOs, CSOs (the new breed of Chief Sustainability Officers) and everyone else in - or aspiring to enter - the C-Suite."
--John Elkington, Co-Founder of Environmental Data Services, SustainAbility and Volans. Co-author of The Power of Unreasonable People (Harvard Business School Press, 2008)
"Giselle has provided practising managers with this helpful and thought-provoking green business guide."
--Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean, London Business School
"This book...presents a comprehensive overview of business and sustainability issues structured around the core business functions from accounting through to strategy. Giselle's book reminds us that jobs and age are not barriers to sustainable business practices - everyone can make a difference."
--Katherine Madden, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
"...The Sustainable MBA will be a valuable guide for young graduates. It will give them the tools they need to embed sustainability into their day to day business practices in a way that is profitable both to their companies and to society as a whole."
--Paul Polman, chief Executive, Unilever
"If people are central to the purpose of a business, then corporate responsibility or sustainability cannot be an add-on. ...Giselle Weybrecht, in her comprehensive book, perhaps first of its kind, has shown how this can actually happen. The book is a must for management students, researchers and practitioners."
--Anant G. Nadkarni, Vice President, Corporate Sustainability, Tata Group
"The Sustainable MBA... is a highly relevant and utterly useful guide for executive sand mangers seeking to redefine business value in the spirit of sustainability."
--Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact
"An essential read for mangers and entrepreneurs alike..."
--Tom Szaky, CEO Terracycle
"This groundbreaking book...is full of useful tips and advice for those looking to apply sustainability to their job, whatever job or business that may be."
--Liz Maw, Executive Director, Net Impact
"...I hope The Sustainable MBA book becomes a prerequisite text for all MBA programmes as 'sustainability' is a key issue that the next generating of managers cannot afford to miss."
--Professor Eric Cornuel, Director General & CEO, EFMD