Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I should have seen the hate mail coming. In October 2018 my Oxford colleague Professor Richard Barker and I published a Green Paper titled “Should FASB and...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The terms “sustainability” and “ESG” are now common in both the public and private equity markets. They are also becoming increasingly common in the bank...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Summary ESG accounting is a mess. Competing initiatives mean there’s no uniform set of standards for measuring a company’s progress on sustainability. The...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. My friend Bhakti Mirchandani has written about the historical significance of the creation of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). She...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I love the British press. With effortless wit and aplomb it regularly publishes articles with eye-catching titles like these from The Telegraph: “Unilever’s...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world with some $1.4 trillion in assets under management. That’s $244,000 for every man, woman, and...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I have previously written about how investors must address income inequality in a similar manner as climate change. It’s now over three years later and the...
