Would A $100 Per Ton Carbon Tax Get ExxonMobil To Right Its Errant Ways?

by dennis | Aug 6, 2021 | Articles 2021, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The Democrats just introduced a bill seeking $500 billion in climate damages from oil giants such as Exxon and Chevron. While I understand the desire behind...

Five Elements of Activist Stewardship: Insights from Two Letters

by dennis | Jul 30, 2021 | Articles 2021, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Engine No. 1 and Elliott Advisors each invested millions of dollars to do careful and in-depth analyses prior to launching their campaigns to improve the...

SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce’s Chocolate-Covered Ideological Screed

by dennis | Jul 27, 2021 | Articles 2021, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. One week ago today on July 20, 2021 Trump appointee SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce (R) gave a 4,725 word speech to the Brookings Institution...

A Dutch Court Fires A Warning Shot Across The Bow Of U.S. Enterprise

by dennis | Jul 23, 2021 | Articles 2021, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. After baseball, litigation is America’s national sport. A Harvard Law School paper, “Comparative Litigation Rates,” by Professors J. Mark Ramseyer &...

What the Shell Judgment Means for US Directors

by dennis | Jul 22, 2021 | Articles 2021, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The recent decision of a Dutch court in Milieudefensie and Ors. v Royal Dutch Shell plc reinforces the expansion of tort law to climate change issues. As...