by Robert G. Eccles | Dec 4, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in...
by Robert G. Eccles | Nov 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. It’s election day! I know all of you are very busy and hoping very much that you take control of the Senate. I must admit that the polls are looking pretty...
by Robert G. Eccles | Nov 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. ESG never had it so good! For starters, notice how I didn’t feel like I had to spell out the acronym. Until recently that was hardly the case. Gloriously,...
by Robert G. Eccles | Nov 2, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I was introduced to Ben Tolhurst by my good friend Charmian (Char) Love. I interviewed her last year after COP 26 to get her reflections on this event in...
by dennis | Oct 25, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Are companies and investors just trying to make more money under the guise of ESG? Or does the call for sustainable business and investment threaten returns...
by Robert G. Eccles | Oct 25, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Let’s make this a multiple choice question. The country has English at its official language. The country has won at least one Gold Medal in the Summer...
by Robert G. Eccles | Oct 17, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Previously I have written about some investor controversy concerning Unilever’s commitment to purpose. There are those investors who simply assert that...
