Financing Sustainable Change: What Does Good Governance Look Like?

by dennis | May 11, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. In February 2023 the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published “Discussion Paper DP23/1: Finance for positive sustainable change: governance,...

The Answers To The “Red States ESG Quiz”

by dennis | May 10, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Birthday The Beatles 1968 I know all of you who took the quiz in my previous piece “How Well Do You Know Your Red States?: A Quiz On ESG” are eager to get...

It’s Time to Take the Unnecessary Politics Out of ESG and Retirement Savings

by dennis | May 9, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Increased politicization of “environmental, social and governance” (ESG) factors in investment has resulted in one side claiming it only promotes social and...

From the ESG Culture Wars to Focusing on the Issues

by dennis | May 9, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Exactly how the acronym of ESG has become the topic of such heated debate will make for a good doctoral dissertation in sociology someday. It has become a...

How Well Do You Know Your Red States? A Quiz On ESG

by dennis | May 5, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Life is unfair. This is what I say to people from Red states who express jealous umbrage about my recent piece “Death Of The Last Triceratops: The ESG...

Death Of The Last Triceratops: The ESG Culture Wars In Wyoming

by dennis | Apr 24, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Wyoming, the Cowboy State, is the smallest one in terms of population (580,817 people), the 10th largest in terms of land area (the first three, in order,...

ExxonMobil Should Move Its Corporate Headquarters From Irving, TX To Boston, MA

by dennis | Apr 7, 2023 | Articles 2023, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. This is admittedly a rather counterintuitive idea . I also think it’s a brilliant one. I hope you agree with me after I’ve made the case with impeccable...