by dennis | Aug 14, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
A system can be described without being understood. When people talk about pressure, they often imagine something overt and intentional—a demand issued, a rule imposed, a vote taken, a punishment threatened. In…
by dennis | Aug 11, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Part II: The Analytical Foundation. If Part I establishes what the anti-ESG ecosystem is and how pressure enters it, Part II explains how that pressure actually moves. This section provides the analytical…
by dennis | Aug 9, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. There was a House of ancient name that stood beside the fen,and all the scholars in that House were sons of wealthy men. And this was said in every...
by dennis | Aug 7, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. This chapter explains how anti-ESG pressure becomes operational. It traces the path by which opposition moves from rhetorical positioning into institutional...
by dennis | Aug 6, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Kristina Wyatt is a good friend of mine and recently became the General Counsel of The Conservation Fund. We were both together at a small private...
by dennis | Aug 4, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The story most readers think they know—ESG rises, ESG overreaches, ESG collapses—sounds tidy and is therefore tempting. But it mislocates the object. ESG is...
by dennis | Aug 3, 2026 | Articles 2026, News & Analysis (Substack)
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I dedicate this book to the most amazing woman I know in this world: my wife Anne Laurin Eccles. We met on a blind date 43 years ago and got married one...
