Sustainability
Tenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University.
On November 4, 2022, I had the great pleasure and honor to deliver the second Piet Sanders Lecture sponsored by the Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My gracious hosts were Dean Harriët Schelhaas, Professor Maarten Verbrugh, Professor Helene Vletter-van Dort, and Mr. Ronald de Groot. The topic of my lecture (which actually turned out just to be four stories instead) was “Will ESG Investing Survive Its Crucible?”
It was also a great honor that Professor Jan Peter Balkenende, a former three times-elected Dutch Prime Minister, came to my lecture. We had a brief chat afterwards and agreed to stay in touch. Just before the holiday break I had a very interesting conversation with him about his background and current interests. I asked Mr. Balkenende if he would be willing to do an interview with me after the holidays and he kindly agreed.
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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