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• Article | Harvard Business Review Blogs | May 15, 2013

  Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

  Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim

  Keywords: sustainability; financial services; financial services industry; banks; insurance companies; risk management; risk; accounting;

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  Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green." Harvard Business Review Blogs (May 15, 2013).

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013

  Innovation at the Boston Consulting Group

  Robert G. Eccles, Das Narayandas and Penelope Rossano

  This case is about how the Boston Consulting Group has approached innovation from its founding to the present day. It discusses the role of the firm's talent market and client market in developing these innovations.

  Keywords: innovation; strategy consulting; professional service firm; knowledge management; client management; product development; leadership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Value Creation; Consulting Industry;

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  Eccles, Robert G., Das Narayandas, and Penelope Rossano. "Innovation at the Boston Consulting Group." Harvard Business School Case 313-137, May 2013.

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2012 version)

  Integrated Assurance at Philips Electronics N.V.

  Robert G. Eccles and Daniela Saltzman

  Philips Electronics is a leader in integrated reporting. In 2010 it produced its third generation report. Since its first report in 2008, Philips' integrated reports and its integrated reporting website had grown in sophistication. In planning for its integrated report for 2011, the company is exploring the issues that will need to be addressed in order to produce an integrated report. KPMG is the company's auditor for both the financial and nonfinancial information contained in the integrated report, but these are covered by separate assurance opinions. Among the challenges of providing an integrated audit is getting the internal measurement and control systems for nonfinancial information to be of the same quality as for financial information. A further challenge is that the cultures of the finance function and those who work in sustainability are very different.

  Keywords: Accounting Audits; Reports; Organizational Culture;

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  Eccles, Robert G., and Daniela Saltzman. "Integrated Assurance at Philips Electronics N.V." Harvard Business School Case 412-054, May 2013. (Revised from original January 2012 version.)

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