Andrew L. Shapiro has been an influential voice on environmental innovation in business for a decade. He has built a career, and a pioneering advisory group,
GreenOrder
GreenOrder was a management consulting group specialising in environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.
History
Shapiro got the idea for GreenOrder from the Wetlands Preserve, an environmentally friendly ni ...
, around the idea that sustainability can be a critical driver of profitable growth.
Through his speaking engagements, authorship and professional practice, Andrew has helped business leaders at some of the world's largest companies build integrated cultures of environmental innovation that create long-term business value. His visionary perspective shaped a discourse on sustainable practices in the corporate world long before "going green" was common parlance.
GreenOrder
GreenOrder was a management consulting group specialising in environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.
History
Shapiro got the idea for GreenOrder from the Wetlands Preserve, an environmentally friendly ni ...
, founded in 2000, is recognized for its groundbreaking work with
GE,
DuPont
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,
General Motors
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,
JPMorgan Chase
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,
Pfizer
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and
Polo Ralph Lauren
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, among others.
Since 2004, Andrew and the
GreenOrder
GreenOrder was a management consulting group specialising in environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.
History
Shapiro got the idea for GreenOrder from the Wetlands Preserve, an environmentally friendly ni ...
group have guided the creation and development of
GE's award-winning, multi-billion dollar
ecomagination
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable ener ...
initiative.
GreenOrder
GreenOrder was a management consulting group specialising in environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.
History
Shapiro got the idea for GreenOrder from the Wetlands Preserve, an environmentally friendly ni ...
continues to work with
Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey Robert Immelt (born February 19, 1956) is an American business executive currently working as a venture partner at New Enterprise Associates. He previously served as the CEO of General Electric from 2001 to 2017, and the CEO of GE's Medi ...
and his senior team, as well as multiple
GE business units on implementation, training and the identification of new product and market opportunities.
[Beth Comstock and Andrew L. Shapiro, Forbe]
"Making Eco-Innovation Work"
September 16, 2010, accessed May 5, 2011.
Andrew's interdisciplinary approach encourages senior executives to use environmental sustainability as a lens to transform how they see their business. He is a frequent presenter, panelist and advisor, and his views have been quoted extensively in print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, CNN and MSNBC.
Tom Friedman, notable journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient, has included Andrew's thoughts and quotes in his best-selling book,
Hot, Flat and Crowded. Recent presentations include TED, the Forbes CEO Forum, World Environmental Center, Fortune Brainstorm Green, the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Wall Street Journal Eco:nomics conference.
Andrew has been profiled in a New York Times business section feature, "A Dollars-and-Cents Man with a Green Philosophy," and he was named one of two dozen "Enviro All-Stars" by Outside magazine. He is the only strategist on Inc. magazine's list of "50 entrepreneurs who are changing the way we live today." He is a member of the
Urban Land Institute
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Trustees' Advisory Committee on Energy and Climate Change; the advisory committee of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; and the board of the
Southern Center for Human Rights
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. Andrew is also co-founder and chairman of GO Ventures, which creates and invests in cleantech and green businesses including California Bioenergy, Class Green Capital and GreenYour.com. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of companies, including LivingHomes,
Meetup
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.com, and Serious Materials.
Andrew Shapiro is a
Brown University
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and
Yale Law School
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graduate. While at Yale he was co-editor-in-chief of The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. He later was a contributing editor for The Nation magazine. He has served as director of the
Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project
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Species
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*'' Populus adenopoda'' – Chinese aspen (Chin ...
. In 1992 Andrew authored We're Number One!: Where America Stands-and Falls-in the New World Order.
In 1999 Andrew authored The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know, which discusses the consequences of the uninhibited personalization afforded by the Internet.
In 2000 Andrew founded
GreenOrder
GreenOrder was a management consulting group specialising in environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.
History
Shapiro got the idea for GreenOrder from the Wetlands Preserve, an environmentally friendly ni ...
, "the go-to consulting company for green business."
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20110428082455/http://greenorder.com/andrew-l.-shapiro.html
*http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/shapiro.html
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Sustainability advocates
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