Clean Winners

Advance Praise for Clean Winners:

“Clean Winners demonstrates how many companies have lost their way by isolating sustainability goals from business value. When combined with customer needs and innovation, sustainability becomes a powerful differentiator.” — Florent Menegaux, CEO, Michelin Group

“Clean Winners sets an inspiring and practical path for businesses to transform their sustainability strategies by reshaping the economy and ecosystems and bringing together sustainability and progress.” — Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman, Schneider Electric

“Clean Winners offers a customer-oriented perspective that aligns with the future of business: one where value creation and sustainability are mutually reinforcing. A must-read for executives seeking to leverage sustainability to increase customer value.” — Guilherme Loureiro, Regional CEO, Walmart Canada, Chile, Mexico, and Central America; coauthor, Reinventing the Leader

“Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace make sustainability resonate—turning it into something every customer wants and making it the heart of business operations and strategy so both customers and the planet win.” — Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, former chairman and CEO, the Lego Group; member of the board, Nike and Starbucks

“Clean Winners offers readers a new path on how to win in sustainability’s next phase. Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace provide groundbreaking insights into how to turn sustainability into a tool they can use to innovate for better products and services, creating true value for consumers.” — Hiroshi Igarashi, President and Global CEO, Dentsu

“Clean Winners proves that, when done right, sustainability drives innovation, efficiency, growth, and profit. A powerful way to reframe our thinking and engage businesses on a new path to value creation while still delivering on sustainability challenges.” — Loïc Moutault, Global President, Mars Petcare

“Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace offer an insightful rethink of sustainability in business. They challenge conventional wisdom and present actionable strategies to drive customer value, product innovation, and business growth.” — Adolfo Orive, President and CEO, Tetra Pak

Goutam Challagalla is the Dentsu Group Chair of Sustainable Strategy and Marketing at IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. He also directs IMD’s Advanced Management Program and its Strategy Governance for Boards program. He has published extensively in leading academic journals, as well as in Harvard Business Review, and he has worked as a principal at the Monitor Group.

Frederic Dalsace is Professor of Marketing and Strategy at IMD. Prior to IMD, he was a professor at HEC Paris, where he held the Social Business/Enterprise and Poverty Chair, sponsored by Danone, Renault, and Schneider Electric. He coauthored, with Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize, 2006), the 2015 Harvard Business Review article ‘Reaching the Rich World’s Poorest Consumers.’ Prior to his career in academia, Dalsace worked at Michelin and as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company.

The authors codirect the Integrating Sustainability into Strategy program at IMD. Their HBR article ‘How to Market Sustainable Products’ was included in HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2025.

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