Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The Land of ESG is embroiled in a two-front war. Identifying the combatants and their arguments may help practitioners keep track of the conversation, and...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Great progress is being made in establishing the IFRS Foundation’s Sustainability Standards Board (SSB) and events are moving quickly. Here I would like to...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. (This blog was originally published as part of the FT Moral Money Forum’s report, “Measuring What Matters: The Scramble to Set Standards for Sustainable...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. Let me start by saying it saddens me to be writing this article. Not that I don’t like to write. As an academic and as a tenured professor at Harvard...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. The time has come for “activist stewardship.” Simply put, this means putting the skills and techniques of activist hedge funds to work where a company’s...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. A tiny hedge fund is taking on ExxonMobil, accusing the energy giant of dragging its feet on climate change, which has led to disappointing financial...
Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. There’s an old local Boston joke that goes like this. A student with a shopping cart piled high with food is standing in the “12 items or less” line at a...
