Stuart is the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and professor of management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Business, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. Before joining Cornell in 2003, he was the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and professor of strategic management at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory.
Stuart has published over 70 papers and authored or edited seven books. His seminal article “Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World,” won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 1997, and helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, he co-authored the path breaking 2002 article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid,” which first described how business could profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing world. Cambridge University selected Capitalism at the Crossroads, first published in 2005, as one of the 50 top books on sustainability of all-time. The book’s third edition was published in 2010. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work in the area of sustainable enterprise. To read more about Dr. Hart , visit his personal site.