Business That Creates a Sustainable Future

Which changes will be critical?

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Columbia Business School hosted Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, in conversation with Professor Amit Khandelwal, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of Global Business, and Chair, Economics Division. In this discussion, Professor Sachs -- a world-renowned professor of economics and widely recognized innovative leader in sustainable development -- offered insight into some of the systemic and structural changes necessary to create socially inclusive economic growth, and the ways in which business plays a role in creating a sustainable future.

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