The Meridian Institute Grows Up
The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that…
The AI Data-Center Panic Is Running on False Facts
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In my last piece, I argued that opposition to AI data centers has outgrown its origins. It is no longer a fringe environmental complaint or a local zoning...
The Birth of the Meridian Institute
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the...
Making Sustainability Financially Relevant
Last week Professor Shiva Rajgopal and I published our book “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration.” We think it’s a timely and much needed book. Over the past five…
The Carver School of Business at Alderton University
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The email arrived on a Tuesday in February 2029, as most consequential things at Alderton did, buried between a reminder about the faculty parking lottery...