How did sustainability become a career for you? When I was going into undergrad, I wanted to do something in the sciences and had always had a strong affinity for the environment. I can remember back to my elementary school days when we had a “cans for...
I hadn’t been to the California State Capitol for the longest time—probably since my visit back in elementary school, while growing up in Oakland, California. Fast forward to July 2017, and—after a quick selfie with “the bear” famously guarding the entrance to the...
To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, national governments and business must be ready to take a big leap forward. The Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS), taking place in San Francisco September 12-14, will prepare these players to take this leap and and...
In the spring of 2017, BSR spoke with a number of our members and key stakeholders about sustainability management, including what is working and what isn’t. These conversations informed the BSR report "Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly...
Hundreds of millions of people around the world lack the energy access necessary to support economic and human development. This “energy poverty” not only severely impairs their quality of life but also has profound implications for the governments, businesses and...
In June, Erb Managing Director Terry Nelidov and I traveled to London to attend Innovation Forum’s two-day conference, “How business Can Measure the Impact—and ROI—of Corporate Sustainability.” This event dove into the complexity associated with holistically...
I was excited to attend and present at Sustainable Brands 2018. My research focuses on how organizations are engaging with sustainability challenges, and my work’s motivation stems from my deep-seated hope that business will transform how we address the many societal...
The world’s most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company, “New Dow” is setting the bar high in reinventing this globally recognized brand. “New Dow” is the internal name tag for the company’s Materials Science division, which...
Erb alumnus Marcos Mancini is a country manager in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. He talked with Erb about the inquiry’s work and the sustainable finance issues involved....
Kelsea Ballantyne earned her MBA/MS in 2016, as part of the Erb Institute and the Tauber Institute for Global Operations. She’s now in an executive development program at Boeing, working on the 777 and 777X airplanes, and she talked with Erb about her work...