Publications & Articles

"A Horse Named Materiality" Responsible Investor, (February 12, 2019)

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“Climate Risk Is Poorly Represented in Company Financial Filings,” Scientific American, article on incomplete disclosure of climate-related risks in SEC filings (August 11, 2016)

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• “Measuring What Matters: Industry Specificity Helps Companies and Investors Gain Traction on Sustainability” With Robert HerzJournal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 28, Issue 2(July 11, 2016)

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• “Organizations need to account for all forms of capital” The CPA Journal, Vol. 85, Issue 4 (April 2015)

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“The SEC and Capital Markets in the 21st Century: Evolving Accounting Infrastructure for Today’s World” With Robert G. Eccles, Brookings Institution - Governance Studies at Brookings (September 2014)

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“Taking Impact Investing and Accounting Full Tilt,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, article co-authored with Clara Miller (July 18, 2014)   

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  • “Corporate Disclosure of Material Information: The Evolution—and the Need to Evolve Again”  With Robert Herz, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 25, Issue 3 (December 23, 2013)
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“The Need for Sector Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards,” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, article co-authored with Robert Eccles, Mike Krzus, and George Serafeim on applying an industry lens to sustainability (Spring 2012)

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“Integrated Reporting and Key Performance Indicators,” section co-authored with Steve Lydenberg in the Harvard Business School e-book The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: Reflections and Next Steps by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng, and Daniela Saltzman (November 22, 2010)

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From Transparency to Performance: Industry-Based Sustainability Reporting on Key Issues  Co-authored with Steve Lydenberg and David Wood, Harvard University - The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and the Initiative for Responsible Investment (July, 2010)

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Metrics for Responsible Property Investing:  Developing and Maintaining a High-Performance Portfolio, Urban Land Institute’s Responsible Property Investing Council, co-authored with Lisa Galley and David Wood (November, 2009)

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“The Business Guide to the Low Carbon Economy: California,” paper on California’s low-carbon future co-authored with The Climate Group (2008)  

Columns & Op-Eds

“Sustainability Accounting Standards Represent Market – Not Regulatory – Forces at Work”  Investor’s Business Daily (April 25, 2017)

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“Sustainability Disclosure: A Matter of Public Trust,”  CFO Magazine, op-ed co-written with Alan Beller (October 31, 2016)

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“Millennials and Women Redefine What It Means to Be a Reasonable Investor”  Institutional Investor (October 20, 2016)

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“To Price Sustainability Risk, You Need an Industry View” Institutional Investor (August 23, 2016)

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“Give Stockholders Better Tools to be Socially Responsible Investors,” MarketWatch, op-ed co-written with Lisa Woll on increasing corporate transparency on ESG data to improve investor decision making (March 8, 2016)

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“Why Investors Can’t Avoid Climate Risk by Divesting”   Wall Street Journal (September 14, 2015)

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“To Serve Investors, Accounting Must Evolve,” Accounting Today, op-ed about the market need for sustainability accounting. (May 5, 2015)

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“A Good Corporate Accounting of Social Costs is Needed”  New York Times (April 16, 2015)

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“Focusing Corporate Sustainability Ratings on What Matters,” The Huffington Post, op-ed co-written with Allen White on the need for better sustainability ratings (April 15, 2015)

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“We have financial fundamentals, so why not sustainability fundamentals?” Ethical Corporation, commentary on how public disclosure of sustainability fundamentals can drive performance (February 2005)

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Speeches

On the Shoulders of Giants  Speech delivered at INSEAD – Society for Progress Fontainebleau, France (June 16, 2018)

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Market Forces at Work  SASB Symposium, Fordham University, NYC (November 30, 2017)

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Sustainability Accounting: From Earth Day to Every Day, Meonske Professional Development Conference keynote address delivered at Kent State University, Kent, OH (April 27, 2017)

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Sustainability Accounting, Corporate Governance, and Public Policy (January 27, 2017) University of Tennessee - C. Warren Neel Corporate Governance Center, Knoxville, TN  (April 27, 2017)

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Beginner’s Mind: The Essential Point of View for Innovation  Jean Rogers speaks on Innovation at the CAQ Tenth Anniversary Event, Washington, DC (January 30, 2017)

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• Moving Markets:  the Power of Materiality,  Speech delivered at the 1 year Anniversary of SASB as a Standard Setter, hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies, New York City (October, 2013)  

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Sustainable Development: From Changing the Environment, to Changing Behavior, speech delivered as the annual Stephan Weiss Visiting Lectureship at Parsons The New School for Design, New York City (February 27, 2007)