Meet 2012 CK Prahalad Award Winners Unilever, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, and Neil Hawkins

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The Corporate Eco Forum presented the 2012 C.K. Prahalad Awards in three categories for the first time since the award's inception in 2010, with honors for sustainability leadership by an individual (Neil Hawkins of Dow Chemical), a collaboration (The Sustainable Apparel Coalition), and a company (Unilever and its CEO Paul Polman). Former U.S. President Bill Clinton congratulated the three winners in a special video prepared for the awards ceremony. The C.K. Prahalad Award was created to honor the vision and life's work of the late Dr. C.K. Prahalad, one of the world's most influential business strategists. Towards the end of his illustrious career, Prahalad focused his enormous talent on the link between sustainability and long-term business success. In a 2009 Harvard Business Review cover story, Prahalad argued that over the next decade "traditional approaches to business will collapse, and companies will have to develop innovative solutions. That will only happen when executives recognize a simple truth: Sustainability equals Innovation." Dr. Prahalad was a senior adviser to the Corporate Eco Forum before his untimely death in 2010.

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