by dennis | Feb 29, 2016 | Articles 2016, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. It is generally agreed that COP21 was a great success. In welcoming the historic climate agreement, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Lise Kingo...
by dennis | Feb 4, 2016 | Articles 2016, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last week I had the privilege of participating in “The Future of the Corporation: Business for Society Conference” held in Santiago. The conference was...
by dennis | Jan 12, 2016 | Articles 2016, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. “The combination of the weight of scientific evidence and the dynamics of the financial system suggest that, in the fullness of time, climate change will...
by dennis | Jan 12, 2016 | Articles 2016, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The basis for this post is a new Harvard Business School Working Paper1 that expands on the idea of the climate custodians within the unique governance...
by dennis | Jan 1, 2016 | Articles 2016, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. On September 22, 2016 CECP, ‘The CEO Force for Good,’ will launch its Strategic Investor Initiative (SII). The purpose of the SII is to shift the...
by dennis | Nov 18, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. With our recent news bulletins dominated by the presidential campaign, Hurricane Patricia and the upcoming World Series playoff between the Kansas City...
by dennis | Nov 18, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In a recent article, my friend and colleague Georg Kell, Founder of the United Nations Global Compact, introduced the idea of “Generation S.” He defines it...