Robert Eccles
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Bob Eccles is professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. He first joined the faculty in 1979 and received tenure in 1989. He left in 1993 to work in the private sector and rejoined the faculty in 2007. Right after receiving tenure, Professor Eccles started doing research on corporate reporting, a topic that remains of great interest to him from a research, managerial practice, and public policy perspective. He has written four books on this subject.
He is working with BHI on the topic of corporate sustainability.
Purpose can provide unifying momentum, but it won’t help identify the specific steps and actions corporations should be taking. Here’s a four-level approach.
Contributing to society cannot be a side activity. Companies that use their core business to address environmental, social, and governance issues can create more value in the long term.
