Congratulations to Erb Faculty member Tom Lyon, whose article, “CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics,” won the Best Article of 2019 Award from the California Management Review! This award is given each year to the authors of the article...
Can we leave it to the next generation? In June, I had the good fortune of participating in a lively panel discussion at Innovation Forum’s “Positive Impact” conference in London. This panel delved into some early research on Generation Z (people currently between the...
What does sustainability look like in Detroit, a city that is going through changes that some consider a renaissance? The Erb Institute talked with five people who are working to make Detroit more sustainable—in wildly divergent ways, from bees, to dirt, to real...
A group of Erb Institute MBA/MS students prepared a sustainability strategy for Delta Airlines as part of their curricular course, Erb Seminar. This report is a critical analysis based on publicly available information, tackling everything from Stakeholder Engagement...
Each year, as part of Erb Seminar, groups of Erb Institute MBA/MS students are asked to prepare critical analyses of a sustainability topic using publicly available information. The below report represents the caliber of the work produced by these groups of students,...
“The biggest issues in supply chains seemed to be not what tools to use in agricultural transformation or measurement, but rather something far more fundamental: communication.” For sustainability initiatives in food retail, do the largest hurdles lie in...
AI and the future of work Rapidly advancing developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a category of computer science, hold immense promise for helping to solve complex sustainability problems such as climate change. But uncertainties loom about AI’s...
It the world keeps using plastic the way it does now, by 2050, we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish. The enormity of the plastic problem is gaining more and more public attention, and both public and private actors have made changes to try to stem the tide...
Rapacious consumption of single-use plastics has led to their widespread accumulation in the environment. Every minute, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean; by 2050, the ocean will contain more plastics than fish by weight. In our economy’s...
People with disabilities constitute the largest minority group, at an estimated one in six people globally, but their needs often are overlooked. Businesses and other organizations that aim to be more inclusive might opt to create an environment where these people’s...
