Browsing by Author "Laszlo, Chris"

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    Positive-impact companies: Toward a new paradigm of value creation
    (2021) Pavez, Ignacio; Kendall, Lori D.; Laszlo, Chris
    The increasingly visible effects of climate change, the degradation of ecological systems, growing income inequality, and high levels of stress and disengagement in the workplace have dramatically increased corporate awareness of the need for integrating sustainability into business strategy. However, the focus of this awareness has largely emphasized finding ways to reduce the firm's harmful impact from “bad” to “less bad” (e.g., when a company cuts its CO2 emissions by 50%). While this helps firms be less unsustainable, it diverts their focus from creating a more flourishing world, a place where people everywhere live in healthy communities, prosper, and can live life to the fullest. We propose that it is time for leaders to shift their thinking, and for companies to refocus their efforts, from reducing harm to making a positive impact, which we define as increasing economic prosperity while contributing to a healthy regenerative natural environment and improving human well-being.
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    The Role of Consciousness in Accelerating Business as an Agent of World Benefit
    (2021) Laszlo, Chris; Pavez, Ignacio
    The call of our times is no longer for factories that produce goods (the “widgets” of neoclassical economics) to satisfy material consumption, irrespective of the harm done to society. It is for an entirely new form of business— named the positive impact com pany (PIC)— whose purpose is to create prosperity and flourishing, now and for future generations.2 PICs are the prototypical instance of business as an agent of world benefit.

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