Robert G. Eccles

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Robert G. Eccles (* 1951 ) is an American economist and Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School . It is regarded as a capacity in the theory and practice of corporate reporting, especially integrated reporting .

Career

Eccles received a Bachelor Degree (SB) in Mathematics and Humanities from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 , his Masters (AM, 1975) and Ph.D., 1979) in Sociology from Harvard University . He began teaching at Harvard and was given a full professorship in 1989. In 1993, Eccles left university and worked in industry. In 2007 he returned to Harvard and took on a teaching post again.

research

Immediately after receiving the professorship, Eccles undertook research on the core topic of operational reporting. He remained connected to this topic from various perspectives, for example research, management practice and from the point of view of the public sector. He has penned several books on this subject. Following Eccle's approach, he integrates various reporting strands, such as environmental, social and regulatory (financial) reporting tasks, into one integrated report.

Honors

Eccle's book One Report , written with Michael P. Krzu's , won the 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE-Award) in the Business, Finance & Management category.

bibliography

Books

  • 1985, The Transfer Pricing Problem: A Theory for Practice Lexington Books
  • 1988, Doing Deals: Investment Banks at Work (with Dwight B. Crane); Harvard Business School Press
  • 2001, The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game (with Robert H. Herz, E. Mary Keegan and David MH Phillips)
  • 2002, Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting (with Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr.)
  • 2010, One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (with Michael P. Krzus)

chapter

  • 1986, Firm and Market Interfaces of Profit Center Control (with Harrison C. White), in Siegwart Lindenbert, James S. Coleman and Stefan Nowak; Approaches to Social Theory

items

  • 1988, Price and Authority in Inter-Profit Center Transactions (with Harrison C. White), American Journal of Sociology 94 (Supplement) : Pages 17 - 51
  • Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim, 2014. The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance , in Management Science , vol 60 (11), pages 2835-2857.

Web links

  • Homepage . Professor Robert G. Eccles,accessed October 20, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Robert G. Eccles. Visiting Professor of Management Practice. In: Website of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. Said Business School, accessed August 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Robert G. Eccles. Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School. Boston Consultancy Group Inc., 2018, accessed August 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eccles, Robert G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American specialist in corporate reporting and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951