Green Options » NPV http://greenoptions.com/tag/npv Posts tagged 'NPV' Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:56:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en An Interview with Frank Dixon - Founder of Global Systems Change http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/09/an-interview-with-frank-dixon-founder-of-global-systems-change/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/09/an-interview-with-frank-dixon-founder-of-global-systems-change/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:56:21 +0000 Brenda Keener http://inspiredeconomist.com/2008/12/09/an-interview-with-frank-dixon-founder-of-global-systems-change/ GlobeFrank Dixon is the founder of Global Systems Change and the former Managing Director of Research for Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, which is the largest corporate sustainability research company in the world.  His perspective on corporate thought and sustainability is that flaws in our economic and political systems make it impossible for any company to become sustainable. In fact, Mr. Dixon managed to shake my belief in many of the fundamental “sacred cows” I learned in business school! 

Frank attributes his revised perspective to his tenure at Innovest.  He found that companies tasked with the holy grail of sustainability usually were able to mitigate no more than 20% of their negative environmental impact before starting to suffer financially. Profits could initially be increased by going green, but then most corporations hit a wall.  Why?

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