McKinsey’s Head on Why Corporate Sustainability Efforts Are Falling Short

HBR IdeaCast

• Episode: McKinsey’s Head on Why Corporate Sustainability Efforts Are Falling Short
• Website: HBR IdeaCast
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• Duration: 00:17:34
• Published: 2018-03-13 17:53

Dominic Barton, the global managing partner of McKinsey&Company, discusses the firm’s sustainability efforts. He talks about the wake-up call he got about sustainability and how he tries to convince CEOs hesitant to make it part of their business model that doing so will improve company performance. He says he sees companies thinking about the environment. “But the speed and scale of what we need to do — I don’t think it’s sufficient.”