by dennis | Jul 23, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. For roughly 2,000 years one civilization guarded a secret the rest of the world would have paid almost anything to learn—and made sure it stayed guarded....
by dennis | Jul 17, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Rule 14a-8 has let shareholders put proposals to a vote for more than eighty years, and the SEC now seems poised to rewrite or repeal it. In an October 2025...
by dennis | Jul 15, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Yesterday the Harvard Business Review published a short piece written by Shiva Rajgopal and me titled “AI Can Measure How ESG Really Impacts the Bottom...
by dennis | Jul 14, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Recently, the two of us put four widely available large language models to work on ExxonMobil’s public disclosures. The goal was not to produce another ESG...
by dennis | Jul 9, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On May 29, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rule in its entirety. The rule, adopted in March...
by dennis | Jul 6, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On May 5, 2026 the SEC issued a proposed rule on semiannual reporting “to allow companies to file semiannual reports on new Form 10-S in lieu of quarterly...
by dennis | Jun 22, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Part 2 of “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration” by Professor Shivaram Rajgopal and me is titled “The Operating Manual:...
