President & Founder

Dr. Stuart L. Hart is the President and Founder of Enterprise for a Sustainable World. He is also the Samuel C. Johnson Professor of Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Previously he was the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan Flagler School of Business and Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina. He was also the founding Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan. His institution building, research, consulting, and writing reflects passion for a new brand of capitalism that treats the citizens of the world with compassion and fairness and the environment as our most critical long-term asset.

Hart wrote the seminal article “Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World,” which won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in the Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, he also wrote the path-breaking 2002 article, “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which first articulated how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world. His 2005 book, Capitalism at the Crossroads (Wharton School Publishing) has been recognized as a ground breaking contribution to the dialogue on sustainable enterprise, clean technology and addressing the needs of the Base of the Pyramid. A second edition of the book, with a new forward by Al Gore was published in 2007.