The New Business of Business Sharing Responsibility for a Positive Global Future

Written for businesspeople and general audiences, The New Business of Business is a collection of 20 articles designed to stimulate dialogue on what the new role of business should be. As people become increasingly aware of worsening national and global environmental, institutional, and social problems, this book points out that business is well positioned to address these concerns.

Willis Harman was president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a founding board member of the World Business Academy. He was also emeritus professor of engineering at Stanford University.


Maya Porter has been a freelance editor since 1987 with a wide range of clients. She was the editor of Perspectives on Business and Global Change, the journal of the World Business Academy, from 1994 to 2002, and co-edited the book The New Business of Business with Willis Harman in 1997. She now specializes in articles, books, and grant proposals for university professors in the field of social work.