Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I have written about the polarization around ESG and how some Republicans are even weaponizing the concept, to the detriment of their own voters. Most...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In The Long and Winding Road to Financial Reporting Standards we reviewed the history of how accounting standards came to exist in the U.S. as Generally...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Former Vice President Mike Pence is not a professional investor. In fairness, neither am I. Good investing is a difficult and complex thing to do. So let me...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last month I sat down with Dianne McKeever, the Co-founder and CIO of Ides Capital, an impact activist investor. We met one morning at a Le Pain Quotidien...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. It is currently an exciting time in the world of setting standards for sustainability reporting. It is also a complex and confusing one. Last year saw the...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Speed is not always your friend. Sometimes it’s better to take the time to make the right decision than to rush to meet a false deadline. In this instance I...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The internal audit (IA) function is a largely unseen and unsung one compared to ones like sales and marketing, operations, and finance. But it is an...