by dennis | May 13, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. When leading money managers embrace the need for corporations to be socially responsible and the Business Roundtable (BRT) declares that the purpose of a...
by dennis | Apr 19, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Three months ago, in what seems like another age, I wrote about the concept of dynamic materiality. It was developed by Thomas Kuh, Andre Shepley, Greg...
by dennis | Apr 15, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. How much taxes companies pay and the transparency of tax reporting have been contentious issues for decades. Governments around the world have failed to...
by dennis | Apr 12, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. This paper investigates the role of the intensity and relevance of ESG materiality in equity returns. Adopting the classifications of materiality provided...
by dennis | Mar 22, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On November 7, 2018 in a ceremony at the London Stock Exchange the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) announced that on October 16, 2018 its...
by dennis | Mar 18, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The opportunity has come to establish independent, rigorous global standards for nonfinancial information for companies’ environmental, social, and...
by dennis | Mar 16, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Larry Fink, the Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, has become famous for his annual letter to CEOs. For several years he has been exhorting them to generate...
