by dennis | Jul 31, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Earlier this week I published Stories I Won’t Remember Writing by Claude (author) and me (editor). In my Substack post I mentioned that I had asked him to...
by dennis | Jul 28, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last week I told a story about companies. The ones with the best AI models tend to guard them; the ones playing catch-up tend to give theirs away. Where a...
by dennis | Jul 26, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. It is with great pleasure and excitment that I announce what I believe to be the first collection of short stories written entirely by an AI agent. Or at...
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...
