Interface Inc., one of the world’s largest commerical carpeting manufacturers, is climbing the Mount Sustainability one step at a time. Stepping onto the path of sustainable business development in 1994, the company re-created its mission to be the first company that, by it’s deeds, show the entire idustrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: people, process, product, place and profits- by 2020-and in doing so will become restorative through the power of influence.
In this inspiring keynote address delivered at The Center for B.A.W.B’s 2005 Sumit on The Future of Management Education at the Intersection of Business and Society, Ray Anderson, the founder of Interface, tells the story of the company as a testimony to the urgency and power of sustainable business development.
