Tech For Good: Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges - Hardcover

Hoek, Marga

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 103249073X ISBN 13: 9781032490731

Publisher: Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2024 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category.

A Top 10 Best New Management Book for 2024 (Thinkers50)

Tech For Good reveals how Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will help solve the world’s greatest challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, inequality, and poverty. Tech For Good presents a unique perspective on how business can successfully apply advanced technologies in a purpose-driven manner while unlocking new markets and seizing business opportunities. Packed with 75 real-life business cases of companies from all over the world, this inspiring book unfolds a compelling narrative about how businesses commercially synergize technology and sustainability. The purpose of this book is to imagine the unprecedented possibilities advanced technologies offer business to drive sustainable growth. Tech for Good will be vital for realizing our Global Goals.

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About the Author

Marga Hoek is a three-time CEO, Chair, and Board Member. Due to her visionary, purpose-driven leadership, Hoek has gained recognition over the years as a global thought leader on sustainable business and capital. She is a multi-golden-awarded bestselling author of the trailblazing titles New Economy Business (2014) and The Trillion Dollar Shift (2018). Fortune praised The Trillion Dollar Shift, which highlights opportunities the UN’s Global Goals hold for business, as "required reading." Recognized by Thinkers50 for her global management thinking, Marga Hoek coined the slogan "Business for Good" in 2014 to emphasize her mission "to make Business for Good the norm, rather than the exception." She continues to champion this mission with this exciting book on Tech for Good.

Marga Hoek’s books contain thorough research and include many real-life business cases. The team supporting the authors contains of:

Chief researcher and editor: Theresa McCarty; MA International Finance and Global Risk

Design, artwork and lettering: Elise Laan; Creative Studio

Assistant editor: Lucy Wilde, MS Environment, Culture and Society

Assistant researcher: Ole Mendel, BSc Future Planet Studies

Project management and assistant editor: Rosalie de Kerf, strategy consultant

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103249073X
• ISBN 13: 9781032490731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368