Allie Goldstein and her master's project team attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar. Her return to the States with unusually warm weather and a mind buzzing with reflections made her reconsider whether or not her and her...
Students: 1. Adam Byrnes, MBA/MS 2014 Sustainable Systems 2. Emilia Sibley, MBA/MS 2014 Sustainable Systems 3. Sabrina Sullivan, MBA/MS 2014 Sustainable Systems 4. Jimmy Ward, MBA/MS 2014 Sustainable Systems Faculty advisor(s): Scott Noesen and Michael Gordon Client...
Professor Ravi Anupindi, Ross School, and Jim Frey, Resource Recycling Systems $10,000 - awarded summer 2012 The main focus of this research is to understand different approaches to the design of reverse supply chains for recycling packaging materials. Our context is...
Evolutions in Sustainable Investing Edited by Cary Krosinsky John Wiley, & Sons, December 2011 Erb student Colm Fay, Erb '12 and alum Amrita Kumar, Erb’11 have contributed chapters to a new book featuring case studies from SRI leaders from around the...
Organizational Dynamics Volume 41, Issue 2, April–June 2012, Pages 99–105 Positive leadership in action: Applications of POS by Jim Mallozzi, CEO, Prudential Real Estate and Relocation (purchase pdf)
Erb Faculty Affiliate Nigel Melville and Erb 2011 Alum, Ryan Whisnant, co-publish report on an important emerging class of enterprise software designed for Environmental Resource Planning (ERP). Environmental Sustainability 2.0: Empirical Analysis of Environmental ERP...
Working in collaboration with LimnoTech and Professor Peter Adriaens, Erb Student Viktor Passinsky ('13) published Mitigating Corporate Water Risk: Financial Market Tools and Supply Management Strategies in the October 2012 issue of Water Alternatives....
This blog is cross-posted on BSR.com. I recently read American Wasteland, the 2010 book by Jonathan Bloom that analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States. Bloom’s main thesis is that we can significantly reduce the amount of food waste we generate by...
Phel Meyer ('13) analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States with author of American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom. "Given last summer’s heat wave and the food shortages and price increases we can expect as a consequence, I would think that food waste reduction...
Berry Kennedy ('14) reflects on her summer internship in the Walmart Sustainability Department. "As a summer MBA intern in the Walmart Sustainability Department, I had an amazing and rare opportunity. I was able to put into practice the sustainability rhetoric that’s...