by dennis | Jan 24, 2018 | Articles 2018, News & Analysis
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...
by dennis | Jan 16, 2018 | Articles 2018, News & Analysis
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...
by dennis | Jan 7, 2018 | Articles 2018, News & Analysis
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. ...
by dennis | Dec 14, 2017 | Articles 2017, News & Analysis
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...
by dennis | Nov 26, 2017 | Articles 2017, News & Analysis
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...
by dennis | Nov 20, 2017 | Articles 2017, News & Analysis
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.”...
by dennis | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles 2017, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. How hard will it be for companies to meet the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures? Not as hard as many might think....
