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...
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...
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...
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...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last Friday morning on my drive to Beijing Capital International Airport, the air was so thick with pollution from carbon intensive coal consumption that...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In the 2014 Government Report delivered on March 5, 2015 at the Third Session of the 12th National People’s Congress, Premier of the State Council Li...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. We routinely hear board directors, CEOs, and CFOs of publicly-listed corporations refer to shareholders as owners of the corporation. Under this thinking,...