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 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...