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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 the answers so you can find out how well you’ve done. I will get to that soon but first, for a select few of you, including my good friend and colleague Professor Shivaram Rajgopal, the Beatles would like to say:

You say it’s your birthday

It’s my birthday too, yeah

My 550 Pound Flipping Tire | SELF

They say it’s your birthday

We’re gonna have a good time

I’m glad it’s your birthday

Happy birthday to you

Yes, today is my 72nd birthday 🎉 🎊🎈and I’m very excited about this!

Yes we’re going to a party party 🎂

Yes we’re going to a party party 🍾

Yes we’re going to a party party 🥂

Life is more than a party, of course. There is important work to be done, like staying on top of the ESG Culture Wars and this is a goal of mine for the next year. That said, my life would be incomplete if only experienced in the cerebral realm. I have some physical goals as well. I want to get back to being able to deadlift 400 pounds. Thanks to two years of COVID-19 and no travel, I was able to rigorously follow the Magnusson & Ortmayer Deadlift Program and hit a PR of 410 in late 2021. Respectable for a non-athlete (remember that I went to MIT) who started lifting at 60 years old but a long way from my hero Eddie Hall, the first man to deadlift 500 kg (1,100 pounds).

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Robert G. Eccles

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Robert G. Eccles of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford is the author of a number of books on integrated reporting, sustainability and the role of business in society. His focus is on sustainability from both a company and investor perspective. Professor Eccles is also involved in a variety of initiatives to embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in real world decision making. One of these is the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), of which he was the founding chairman. In 2018, Professor Eccles was selected by Barron’s as one of the top 20 influencers on ESG investing.

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