Growing up, I was fascinated by sustainability and how climate change affects society. My actions started out small, from ensuring my family strictly followed local recycling guidelines to launching my high school’s recycling program. This interest grew into a...
Dow Sustainability Fellowship Experience: Addressing Utility Burden in DetroitDisproportionate utility burden in Detroit Efficient, affordable housing is the bedrock for health, financial stability, and equitable, climate resilient neighborhoods. As a result of...
Combating GHG Emissions in the Forest, Land and Agriculture Sector with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)The Issue A year ago, I came to the University of Michigan Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise to pursue a joint MBA/MS degree through the Ross School of...
Around this time last year, I was weighing my grad school options. The Erb Institute rose to the top pretty early on in the process. Once I visited campus and got a taste of the sense of community the program fostered, I was sold. Of the multitude of high-value...
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 the supply...
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...
I came to the Erb Institute because I believe that business represents the greatest opportunity to solve our most pressing social and environmental problems. Because most established corporations focus on increasing profits as their sole purpose, I suspect that it...