Completing Capitalism
Completing Capitalism
Heal Business to Heal the World
Bruno Roche (Author),
Jay Jakub (Author),
Colin Mayer (Foreword by),
Martin Radvan (Foreword by),
Lim Siong Guan (Author)
Edition: 1
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 May, 2017
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Milton Friedman's “financial capitalism” business model, which focuses exclusively on maximizing returns to shareholders, has caused tremendous harm to people, planet, and even profits, argue Mars, Inc., executives Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub. They advocate a detailed, field-tested alternative that takes a broader view and enables businesses to do well while doing good.
For the past fifty years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman “financial capitalism” economic model, which preaches that it is the “sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders.” This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality-businesses need to pay attention to many other factors if they are to thrive and endure-and has resulted in increasing global economic dysfunction, widening inequality, and environmental destruction.
In this new book, Roche and Jakub offer a new model that is built around detailed metrics to measure and track performance in all forms of capital, including social, human, and natural, as well as financial. And this is not simply theory: the model has been extensively field-tested in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. It is delivering superior measurable performance across the different forms of capital, including generating more profit than a profit maximization approach. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of today's financial capitalism model, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, proven alternative.
For the past fifty years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman “financial capitalism” economic model, which preaches that it is the “sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders.” This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality-businesses need to pay attention to many other factors if they are to thrive and endure-and has resulted in increasing global economic dysfunction, widening inequality, and environmental destruction.
In this new book, Roche and Jakub offer a new model that is built around detailed metrics to measure and track performance in all forms of capital, including social, human, and natural, as well as financial. And this is not simply theory: the model has been extensively field-tested in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. It is delivering superior measurable performance across the different forms of capital, including generating more profit than a profit maximization approach. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of today's financial capitalism model, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, proven alternative.
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Milton Friedman's “financial capitalism” business model, which focuses exclusively on maximizing returns to shareholders, has caused tremendous harm to people, planet, and even profits, argue Mars, Inc., executives Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub. They advocate a detailed, field-tested alternative that takes a broader view and enables businesses to do well while doing good.
For the past fifty years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman “financial capitalism” economic model, which preaches that it is the “sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders.” This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality-businesses need to pay attention to many other factors if they are to thrive and endure-and has resulted in increasing global economic dysfunction, widening inequality, and environmental destruction.
In this new book, Roche and Jakub offer a new model that is built around detailed metrics to measure and track performance in all forms of capital, including social, human, and natural, as well as financial. And this is not simply theory: the model has been extensively field-tested in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. It is delivering superior measurable performance across the different forms of capital, including generating more profit than a profit maximization approach. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of today's financial capitalism model, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, proven alternative.
For the past fifty years, the business world has been dominated by the Milton Friedman “financial capitalism” economic model, which preaches that it is the “sole social responsibility of business to maximize profit for distribution to shareholders.” This one-dimensional focus represents a grossly incomplete view of reality-businesses need to pay attention to many other factors if they are to thrive and endure-and has resulted in increasing global economic dysfunction, widening inequality, and environmental destruction.
In this new book, Roche and Jakub offer a new model that is built around detailed metrics to measure and track performance in all forms of capital, including social, human, and natural, as well as financial. And this is not simply theory: the model has been extensively field-tested in live business pilots in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere. It is delivering superior measurable performance across the different forms of capital, including generating more profit than a profit maximization approach. Recent high-profile books like Capital in the Twenty-First Century have exposed the shortcomings of today's financial capitalism model, but this book goes far beyond by describing a well-developed, proven alternative.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Colin Mayer, Former Dean, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and Martin Radvan, President, Mars Wrigley Confectionery
- Introduction: Uprooting the Dysfunctions of Financial Capitalism
- Chapter 1: The Expanded Meaning of Capital
- Chapter 2: Five Indicators for Measuring Human Capital and Well-Being at Work
- Chapter 3: Measuring Social Capital— How Communities Affect Growth
- Chapter 4: Measuring Natural Capital— Making More from Less
- Chapter 5: Recalibrating Financial Capital— How Mutuality Drives Profits
- Chapter 6: Maua—Social and Human Capital: A Case Study
- Chapter 7: Coffee—Natural Capital: A Case Study 127
- Chapter 8: Remunerating the New Forms of Capital
- Conclusion: Repositioning Business as a Restorative Healing Power
- Afterword by Lim Siong Guan, former Group President, Singapore Sovereign Wealth Fund (GIC)
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About the Authors
Review quote
“A major breakthrough on creating an economy that works for all. The thinking is rigorous and backed up by careful research on how mutuality-based practices in social, human, natural, and financial capital can change the economic well-being of society. This work now sets the gold standard for how the private sector can go beyond lip service in making a major positive impact on the world.”
-Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting and Community
“The world is rapidly changing, and business must adapt to the new rules of the game or fall behind. Roche and Jakub give us a blueprint for sustainable corporate prosperity. It's an approach that can deliver greater value to society and the environment and also deliver superior business returns-a ‘win-win-win' for all stakeholders in a corporate value chain. But to do this, you must work with the right people. This new way of operating a business is applicable to all sectors of the economy. It is not just about doing good but is good for business.”
-Olivier Goudet, CEO, JAB Group, and Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev
“Courageously reconciles dimensions that were thought to be mutually exclusive for centuries. A must-read for today's business leaders who are ready to reinvent their world!”
-Jean-Christophe Flatin, President, Mars Global Chocolate
“In Completing Capitalism, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub dramatically succeed where others have dismally failed. Their clear, concise, values-driven words shape capitalism into its final form and elevate it to the pinnacle position that it deserves. Roche's and Jakub's superb scholarship is underpinned and supported by the practical reality of successful pilots and business world applications. They not only complete capitalism, they create and hand us a road map for responsible business in the 21st century.”
-Dr. Frank Akers, former Associate Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Chairman, Mars Science Advisory Council; CEO, Oak Ridge Strategies Group; and Brigadier General, US Army (ret.)
“For Veolia, the world leader in environmental services, the question of innovation in service of human progress is central: expanding access to natural resources, preserving and renewing them is our vocation. Our values at Veolia are in profound harmony with the great essay of Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub, Completing Capitalism, which proposes a vision and practical solutions for a responsible capitalism based on reciprocity and shared prosperity.”
-Dinah Louda, Executive Director, Veolia Institute, and advisor to the CEO of Veolia
“The more complete form of capitalism put forward by Roche and Jakub is not about competitive advantage. But to be competitive in the future, companies will need to operate this way.”
-Paul Michaels, former CEO, Mars, Incorporated, and former executive, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble
“As human beings we long for the way the world is supposed to be, even as we make choices against that hope. For years Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub have been hard at work thinking and rethinking the way that business should be and ought to be-if we are to flourish as selves and societies, choosing a future that understands the grain of the universe. With a rare willingness to ask the most critical questions about the nature of business, their ‘economics of mutuality' is a vision for doing good and doing well in the context of one of the most iconic brands in the modern world. Neither charity nor corporate social responsibility, but rather a way for sustained profitability, Completing Capitalism argues for making money in a way that remembers the meaning of the marketplace.”
-Dr. Steven Garber, Principal, The Washington Institute, and author of Visions of Vocation and The Fabric of Faithfulness
“Some endeavors require intellectual, emotional, or spiritual courage. Bruno and Jay have demonstrated all three in fleshing out this valuable piece of work on behalf of Mars, Incorporated, our associates, and all stakeholders, including the planet. I truly hope it evolves, as I believe it can and must, the dialogue regarding capitalism's future and its crucial role in our world going forward.”
-Stephen Badger, Chairman of the Board, Mars, Incorporated
“This crisis is more than a ‘normal' crisis. It requires a reset of our thoughts and ways of doing. Business as usual does not work anymore or anywhere. The journey that Jay Jakub and Bruno Roche are proposing is a difficult one but a promising and fecund one. It is ambitious but within our reach to make this world a better one. This is, I believe, the only reasonable option. We have patched up the system. This is the good news. We have to rebuild. This is the promising appeal. A properly functioning market economy must work for the many, not just for the few. Now is the time if we want to eradicate poverty in our generation. And here is how.”
-Bertrand Badré, CEO, BlueOrange Capital; Chair, Global Future Council on International Governance and Public-Private Cooperation, World Economic Forum; former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, World Bank Group; and former Group Chief Financial Officer, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole
-Peter Block, author of Flawless Consulting and Community
“The world is rapidly changing, and business must adapt to the new rules of the game or fall behind. Roche and Jakub give us a blueprint for sustainable corporate prosperity. It's an approach that can deliver greater value to society and the environment and also deliver superior business returns-a ‘win-win-win' for all stakeholders in a corporate value chain. But to do this, you must work with the right people. This new way of operating a business is applicable to all sectors of the economy. It is not just about doing good but is good for business.”
-Olivier Goudet, CEO, JAB Group, and Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev
“Courageously reconciles dimensions that were thought to be mutually exclusive for centuries. A must-read for today's business leaders who are ready to reinvent their world!”
-Jean-Christophe Flatin, President, Mars Global Chocolate
“In Completing Capitalism, Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub dramatically succeed where others have dismally failed. Their clear, concise, values-driven words shape capitalism into its final form and elevate it to the pinnacle position that it deserves. Roche's and Jakub's superb scholarship is underpinned and supported by the practical reality of successful pilots and business world applications. They not only complete capitalism, they create and hand us a road map for responsible business in the 21st century.”
-Dr. Frank Akers, former Associate Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Chairman, Mars Science Advisory Council; CEO, Oak Ridge Strategies Group; and Brigadier General, US Army (ret.)
“For Veolia, the world leader in environmental services, the question of innovation in service of human progress is central: expanding access to natural resources, preserving and renewing them is our vocation. Our values at Veolia are in profound harmony with the great essay of Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub, Completing Capitalism, which proposes a vision and practical solutions for a responsible capitalism based on reciprocity and shared prosperity.”
-Dinah Louda, Executive Director, Veolia Institute, and advisor to the CEO of Veolia
“The more complete form of capitalism put forward by Roche and Jakub is not about competitive advantage. But to be competitive in the future, companies will need to operate this way.”
-Paul Michaels, former CEO, Mars, Incorporated, and former executive, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble
“As human beings we long for the way the world is supposed to be, even as we make choices against that hope. For years Bruno Roche and Jay Jakub have been hard at work thinking and rethinking the way that business should be and ought to be-if we are to flourish as selves and societies, choosing a future that understands the grain of the universe. With a rare willingness to ask the most critical questions about the nature of business, their ‘economics of mutuality' is a vision for doing good and doing well in the context of one of the most iconic brands in the modern world. Neither charity nor corporate social responsibility, but rather a way for sustained profitability, Completing Capitalism argues for making money in a way that remembers the meaning of the marketplace.”
-Dr. Steven Garber, Principal, The Washington Institute, and author of Visions of Vocation and The Fabric of Faithfulness
“Some endeavors require intellectual, emotional, or spiritual courage. Bruno and Jay have demonstrated all three in fleshing out this valuable piece of work on behalf of Mars, Incorporated, our associates, and all stakeholders, including the planet. I truly hope it evolves, as I believe it can and must, the dialogue regarding capitalism's future and its crucial role in our world going forward.”
-Stephen Badger, Chairman of the Board, Mars, Incorporated
“This crisis is more than a ‘normal' crisis. It requires a reset of our thoughts and ways of doing. Business as usual does not work anymore or anywhere. The journey that Jay Jakub and Bruno Roche are proposing is a difficult one but a promising and fecund one. It is ambitious but within our reach to make this world a better one. This is, I believe, the only reasonable option. We have patched up the system. This is the good news. We have to rebuild. This is the promising appeal. A properly functioning market economy must work for the many, not just for the few. Now is the time if we want to eradicate poverty in our generation. And here is how.”
-Bertrand Badré, CEO, BlueOrange Capital; Chair, Global Future Council on International Governance and Public-Private Cooperation, World Economic Forum; former Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, World Bank Group; and former Group Chief Financial Officer, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole
