Rule 14a-8 has let shareholders put proposals to a vote for more than eighty years, and the SEC now seems poised to rewrite or repeal it. In an October 2025 keynote, Chairman...

Yesterday the Harvard Business Review published a short piece written by Shiva Rajgopal and me titled “AI Can Measure How ESG Really Impacts the Bottom Line.” The foundation for...

On May 29, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rule in its entirety. The rule, adopted in March 2024, had been stayed...

On May 5, 2026 the SEC issued a proposed rule on semiannual reporting “to allow companies to file semiannual reports on new Form 10-S in lieu of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q to...

Part 2 of “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration” by Professor Shivaram Rajgopal and me is titled “The Operating Manual: Making It Work Inside...

The London campus opened in September 2031 with 47 students and a space in Clerkenwell that had been a design studio and before that a printworks and before that…

In my last piece, I argued that opposition to AI data centers has outgrown its origins. It is no longer a fringe environmental complaint or a local zoning nuisance; it has become...

January 14, 2029. Delaware has just registered the Meridian Institute as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and it exists now, legally, as a thing in the world. PBC. Not a...

Last week Professor Shiva Rajgopal and I published our book “Making Sustainability Financially Relevant: A Man/Machine Collaboration.” We think it’s a timely and much needed book. Over the past five…

The email arrived on a Tuesday in February 2029, as most consequential things at Alderton did, buried between a reminder about the faculty parking lottery and a message from...

Consider two scenes. Scene one: Two accounting professors at lunch. One mentions an empirical puzzle she noticed in earnings announcements. The other asks a clarifying question....

The archetypes of the left and the right don’t agree on much. Climate is often cited as a prime example, although I should emphasize this is the archetypes, not most Americans. I...

My book “An American’s Guide to Climate Change: How America Can Lead and Prosper” has been published. Here is the book trailer. I have written this book for Americans who are...

It all began on February 26, 2025. I was having lunch with my good friend Gina Ashe at the adorable Main Streets Market & Café in the historic and charming town center of...