Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On July 27, 2022, The Republican Study Committee published a Memorandum titled “The War on American Energy: Ground Zero” expressing its concern about...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In our previous post, The Complex, Contentious, and Changing Nature of Financial Reporting Standards, we show that financial reporting standards, despite...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. We revisit the firm value and pricing implications of the negative screening of sin stocks. Unlike prior work, we find that institutional ownership and...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I have written about the polarization around ESG and how some Republicans are even weaponizing the concept, to the detriment of their own voters. Most...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In The Long and Winding Road to Financial Reporting Standards we reviewed the history of how accounting standards came to exist in the U.S. as Generally...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Former Vice President Mike Pence is not a professional investor. In fairness, neither am I. Good investing is a difficult and complex thing to do. So let me...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last month I sat down with Dianne McKeever, the Co-founder and CIO of Ides Capital, an impact activist investor. We met one morning at a Le Pain Quotidien...
