Sustainability
Tenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University.
Last month I sat down with Dianne McKeever, the Co-founder and CIO of Ides Capital, an impact activist investor. We met one morning at a Le Pain Quotidien in midtown Manhattan. She ordered the chamomile tea and I had the iced tea lemonade. Neither one of us had anything to eat. The bill was $10.44 which she insisted on paying saying, “I am the local.” Being the gentleman I am, I demurred.
Eccles: Dianne, thanks for taking the time to meet with me. Let’s start by talking about your childhood.
McKeever: I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and graduated from Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School where I had a pretty well-rounded experience—speech team, cheerleading, and a serious violin student. I grew up in a family that operated and owned a small consumer chemical manufacturing business, so I spent a lot of time meandering around factory floors and playing with adding machines.
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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