Erb alum, Grant Hughes ('13) and co-founder Cavan Canavan, launch a personal fitness trainer app startup. This is the first smart watch and smart phone app with the power of a personal trainer that requires minimal user input. FOCUS TRAINR was recently featured on...
Recent business school graduates launching a startup typically go after “traditional” investment from angel investors, VCs, business plan competitions, tech incubators, and, increasingly, social venture funds. But Rich Grousset and I learned that BizeeBox, our...
Erb alum, Elise Hunter's ('13) blog on GreenBiz dives into climate adaptation vs. mitigation, its impact on the supply chain and the importance of community. "The goal of climate mitigation is to limit the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, either by...
Erb students Emily Taylor ('14) and Jenny Cooper ('15) win Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability. Emily's team proposal, Enabling Energy Efficiency in Rental Properties focuses on finance energy efficiency projects for rental properties....
Congratulations to first year Erb student, Kelsea Ballanytne ('16) for being appointed for a two year term on the U-M President's Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights from President Coleman.
Travelers Insurance: Focusing on Climate Change and Natural Catastrophe Risk (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study # 1-429-347)– published 07/2013, 28 pages. Developed by: Jonathan Huynh ('13), David Wang ('15), Jay Wolfgram ('15), and...
Ryan Whisnant Erb '10 offers up some refreshing antidotes to "the gloom and doom" that tends to be associated with global sustainability topics including Andy Hoffman and John Ehrenfeld's new book: "Flourishing" and a look at the growing field of positive psychology....
Developed under the supervision of Andrew Hoffman by graduate students Rhiannon Haller, Brandon Tirrell, Courtney Yan, and Connie Yu (Erb ’15) Ford Motor Company’s Social Sustainability Manager and Erb EAB emeritus, David Berdish, faces the challenge of positioning...
Developed under the supervision of Andrew Hoffman by graduate students Wesley Allred (Erb ’14), Heather Croteau, Fareed Hussain, Melisa Ongun and Sheena VanLeuven (Erb ’15) Jamba Juice CEO James White must determine how to respond to an online petition started by a...
This case was developed under the supervision of Andrew Hoffman by graduate students Alice Appleton, Cara Bastoni, Kara Davidson (Erb ’13) and Yuan Zhang. SC Johnson developed the ingredient improvement process, called Greenlist™ to reduce the negative environmental...