Andrew Savitz

Biography

Andrew Savitz is a creative advisor, author and speaker, with over 20 years of hands-on experience assisting corporations to become leaders in sustainability, environmental performance, measurement and reporting. Andy is the author of The Triple Bottom Line: How the Best Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success and How You Can Too (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2006) and is a frequent keynote speaker. He was a lead partner in PricewaterhouseCooper`s global Sustainability Business Services practice and was PwC`s liaison delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Andy served as General Counsel in the Massachusetts Office of Environmental Affairs, where he conceived and organized the Commonwealth`s Environmental Crime Strike Force, and the first-in-the-nation workshop on environmental law for state court judges. He has taught courses at the Environmental Law Institute, in Washington, DC on environmental law and regulations, compliance and enforcement, environment and the media and environmental ethics. Andy serves on the Board of the Environment and Natural Resources Department at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He founded, and currently chairs the Board of the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters.

Andy holds a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center, earned a post-graduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics while a Rhodes Scholar at New College Oxford, and has his BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with his wife and three children and is an avid, life-long Boston Red Sox fan.

Publications

The Triple Bottom Line

Not since the Great Depression has American business been so vilified for financial scandal, environmental recklessness and general disregard for the public interest. The very names of the disgraced companies | from Enron to Worldcom and ImClone | conjure up images of shame. It is enough to make executives question whether it is even worth trying to please stakeholders not to mention earn a profit.

Their answer lies in the sweet spot.

That, Andy Savitz tells us in The Triple Bottom Line, is the place where corporate and societal interests intersect. It is a new way to measure the bottom line | where profits go side-by-side with environmental and social performance | and an illuminating way to understand the often-fuzzy concept of sustainability. It is a spot that the best-run and most profitable companies have already found, and Savitz, former head of PricewaterhouseCooper`s Sustainability Business Services practice, says is attainable for any business that knows where to look and is willing to change.