Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Companies and investors are being asked to support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 — what some have described as “the closest thing the...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Billions of people cannot meet their basic needs for food, shelter, and health. Resource scarcity and a lack of access to basic services disproportionately...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On January 6, 2017, JANA Partners, a New York–based activist hedge fund, and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) sent a letter to...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. There are a growing number of investment opportunities for companies and projects developing innovative solutions to environmental and social problems. ...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Abstract We conducted a type of “field experiment” to evaluate how difficult it will be for companies to implement the recommendations of the Task Force on...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last month, The Boston Consulting Group released their findings on total societal impact (TSI). To recap, TSI is not a single metric; it is a collection of...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The debate about whether companies can do well financially by doing good things for the world is settled. The answer is “Yes, in certain circumstances.”...
