Grow the pie : how great companies deliver both purpose and profit
- New York Cambridge University Press 2020
- 371p.
Table of Contents
Introduction How to read this book Part I. Why grow the pie? Introducing the idea: 1. The pie-growing mentality: a new approach to business that works for both investors and society 2. Growing the pie doesn't aim to maximise profits – but often does: freeing a company to take more investments, ultimately driving its success: 3. Growing the pie doesn't mean growing the enterprise: three principles to guide trade-offs and which projects to turn down 4. Does pieconomics work?: data – not wishful thinking – shows that companies can both do good and do well Part II. What grows the pie? Exploring the evidence: 5. Incentives: rewarding long-term value creation while deterring short-term gaming 6. Stewardship: the value of engaged investors that both support and challenge management 7. Repurchases: investing with restraint, releasing resources to create value elsewhere in society Part III. How to grow the pie? Putting it into practice: 8. Enterprises: the power of purpose and how to make it real 9. Investors: turning stewardship from a policy into a practice 10. Citizens: how individuals can act and shape business, rather than be acted upon Part IV. The bigger picture: 11. Growing the pie more widely: win-win thinking at the national and personal levels Conclusion Action items Appendix Acknowledgements Endnotes Index.
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