【Speaker】Professor Stuart Hart, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University

【Topic】Sustainable Prosperity through Green Leap Strategy

【Time】19:00-21:00pm, 2010-12-07, Tuesday

【Venue】Room 401, Shunde Building, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

【Host】Center for Green Leap Research, Tsinghua University

About the Speaker

Stuart L. Hart is the Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management. He is also Founder and President of Enterprise for a Sustainable World. Professor Hart is one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. He has published over 70 papers and authored or edited seven books with over 5,000 Google Scholar citations in all. His article “Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World” won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in the Harvard Business Review for 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. His best-selling book,Capitalism at the Crossroads, published in 2005, was selected by Cambridge University as one of the 50 top books on sustainability of all-time; the third edition of the book was published in 2010.

*For those who raise questions at the speech we offerCapitalism at the Crossroadswith Professor Hart’s signature.