by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In January of last year I noted how the narrative on sustainability reporting had changed from the belief that market forces will determine the standards...
by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of my graduation from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in pure mathematics. As an entering freshman I had dreams of doing...
by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. At a Financial Times Moral Money conference on May 20, 2022, Mr. Stuart Kirk, Global Head of Responsible Investment at HSBC Asset Management, and a former...
by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In this post, we provide comments on the proposed rules. We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments on the proposed rules relating to the...
by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The mission of the SEC is to protect investors. Key to this is providing them with the information they need to make their capital allocation decisions. On...
by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In the last several weeks, most of the attention in the corporate governance world has been focused on the drama playing out between Elon Musk and Twitter’s...
by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Shareholder activism—the practice of buying small stakes in public companies and pushing for change—is one of the best tools we have for holding companies...
