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CSOs Need to Buck Up
CSOs Need to Buck Up
Part 2 of “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration” by Professor Shivaram Rajgopal and me is titled “The Operating Manual: Making It Work Inside...
The Meridian Institute Grows Up
The Meridian Institute Grows Up
The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that…
The AI Data-Center Panic Is Running on False Facts
The AI Data-Center Panic Is Running on False Facts
In my last piece, I argued that opposition to AI data centers has outgrown its origins. It is no longer a fringe environmental complaint or a local zoning nuisance; it has become...
The Birth of the Meridian Institute
The Birth of the Meridian Institute
January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the world. PBC. Not a...
Making Sustainability Financially Relevant
Making Sustainability Financially Relevant
Last week Professor Shiva Rajgopal and I published our book “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration.” We think it’s a timely and much needed book. Over the past five…
The Carver School of Business at Alderton University
The Carver School of Business at Alderton University
The email arrived on a Tuesday in February 2029, as most consequential things at Alderton did, buried between a reminder about the faculty parking lottery and a message from...
The Artisanal Paper Is Dead
The Artisanal Paper Is Dead
Consider two scenes. Scene one: Two accounting professors at lunch. One mentions an empirical puzzle she noticed in earnings announcements. The other asks a clarifying question....
The Bipartisan Opposition to AI Data Centers
The Bipartisan Opposition to AI Data Centers
The archetypes of the left and the right don’t agree on much. Climate is often cited as a prime example, although I should emphasize this is the archetypes, not most Americans. I...
The Future We Can Build Together
The Future We Can Build Together
My book “An American’s Guide to Climate Change: How America Can Lead and Prosper” has been published. Here is the book trailer. I have written this book for Americans who are...
Reflecting on My First Year Anniversary with AI
Reflecting on My First Year Anniversary with AI
It all began on February 26, 2025. I was having lunch with my good friend Gina Ashe at the adorable Main Streets Market & Café in the historic and charming town center of...
A Candid Conversation with Professor Karthik Ramanna About Carbon Accounting and Reporting
A Candid Conversation with Professor Karthik Ramanna about Carbon Accounting and Reporting
Professor Karthik Ramanna and I go back nearly 20 years when he joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School. These were the early days of ESG; little did either of us know...
Celebrating My 75th Birthday with a Pure Math HIT Experiment
Celebrating My 75th Birthday with a Pure Math HIT Experiment
Happy Birthday to me 🎂! Yep, today I turn 75 years old. Three quarters of a century ain’t bad, right? Every birthday gives me pause for reflection and this one has a certain...
The Human Burden and the Gap in the AI Agents’ Good Intentions
The Human Burden and the Gap in the AI Agents' Good Intentions
Last week I wrote about the seven challenges this human faces in being a member of a Hybrid Intelligent Team (HIT). But since there’s no “i” in “team” I decided it was only...
Solutions That Work in America
Solutions That Work in America
My book “An American’s Guide to Climate Change: How America Can Lead and Prosper” has been published. Here is the book trailer. I have written this book for Americans who are...
An accounting and reporting solution to achieve Net-Zero Emissions
An accounting and reporting solution to achieve Net-Zero Emissions
We can win the battle of life against the toxic excess of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (referred to as ‘Carbon’ hereafter). The ZEN solution ‘counts and reports Carbon just...
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