The Benefits And Costs Of Climate-Related Disclosure Activities For Companies And Investors

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...

Nielsen And The WindAcre Partnership: A Nostalgic Tale Of A Corporate Raider And Private Equity White Knights

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...

Comment Letter on SEC Rule 10B-1 Position Reporting of Large Security-Based Swap Positions

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...

Why Collaboration By IFRS Foundation And GRI Is A Progressive Step For Corporate Transparency

by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On March 24, 2022 the IFRS Foundation (the Foundation) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) published a press release announcing “a collaboration...

Why Does the SEC Want to Stifle Investors’ Incentives to Hold Management’s Feet to the Fire?

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...

Vladimir Putin’s Contribution To ESG Investing

by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis

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,...

How a carbon tax would hit the earnings of US companies

by Robert G. Eccles | Jul 27, 2022 | Articles 2022, News & Analysis

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...