Faculty & Research
An Action Strategy for One Report: Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated ReportingDecember 16
Robert G. Eccles
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 16, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Aldrich 110
To register: Please RSVP to sefs@hbs.edu
Description: Within the past few years, some innovative companies in different industries around the world have combined their separate financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) reports into “One Report.” This integrated reporting also involves actively leveraging the Internet to improve the level of dialogue and engagement with all of their stakeholders. Integrated reporting is what a company can and should do if it has a sustainable strategy. But a sustainable society requires that most of its companies have sustainable strategies and the rapid and broad adoption of high–quality integrated reporting can play a critical role here. This seminar will give participants the opportunity to provide the presenter with feedback on the action strategy he is developing with others to make this happen. Key topics for discussion include:
- What is the best way to get companies to adopt integrated reporting out of their own self–interest?
- What is the role of analysts, investors, auditors and rating agencies in accelerating the adoption of integrated reporting?
- Should integrated reporting be mandated by law or regulation? How should these laws and regulations be written and enforced?
- What is the role of civil society?
Biography:
Robert G. Eccles joined the faculty at the Harvard Business School in 1979, received tenure in 1989, left in 1993 to pursue a variety of private and public sector activities and returned to the faculty in September of 2007. He recently finished the book One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy which will be published in February 2010. Bob is now writing a book with Professor Das Narayandas called Building Capabilities: Ensuring Long–Term Success in a Professional Service Firm and he has started a new research project with Professor Amy Edmondson on “the transformation of the design and building industry for sustainability.”
Seminar pre–reading materials:
- Please read the introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 8 of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy, by Rober G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus.
Report will be sent to RSVPs one week prior to the seminar. HBS Faculty and Staff may access the report here. (HBS intranet login required)
