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...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and brutal assault on the Ukrainian people is reverberating around the world in many ways. It will continue to do so for years,...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. A price on carbon is often cited as the only way to force behavioral change. Robert G. Eccles, Xingchao Gao, and Shiva Rajgopal analyse the financial impact...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Harvard Law School Professor Lucian Bebchuk is an interesting and impressive individual. He grew up in Israel and there simultaneously obtained a degree in...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. I should have seen the hate mail coming. In October 2018 my Oxford colleague Professor Richard Barker and I published a Green Paper titled “Should FASB and...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The terms “sustainability” and “ESG” are now common in both the public and private equity markets. They are also becoming increasingly common in the bank...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Summary ESG accounting is a mess. Competing initiatives mean there’s no uniform set of standards for measuring a company’s progress on sustainability. The...
