by dennis | Nov 3, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
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...
by dennis | Nov 3, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
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...
by dennis | Oct 26, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
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,...
by dennis | Oct 26, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Last month, I wrote here about how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals create real opportunities for business leaders based on market opportunities in...
by dennis | Sep 16, 2015 | Articles 2015, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. “If we we’re serious about meaningful reporting on ESG performance, the focus should be on targeted, business-relevant metrics and a simple, transparent...
by dennis | Feb 2, 2014 | Articles 2014, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Abstract In this paper, we present the two primary functions of corporate reporting (information and transformation) and why currently isolated financial...
by dennis | Jan 1, 2014 | Articles 2014, News & Analysis
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The world’s top credit agencies are dumping claims that their research is “independent” in a shift that follows accusations of bias and allegations that...
