Fall Workshop Series: Passion to Business with Maria Emilia Correa

As part of its fall speaker series, please join the Erb Institute for a workshop with Maria Emilia Correa, Co-Founder and Senior Strategist of Sistema B for a workshop focused on integrating passion, sustainability and business. Sistema B was created to solve social and environmental issues using financial results as a tool to achieve an […]

The Elements of Business Sustainability Series : Business and Human Rights with Roger McElrath

As Associate Director at BSR, Roger has nearly 15 years of experience advising some of the world’s largest brands on a broad range of social, labor, and environmental issues—from factory working conditions, to migrant labor in agricultural production, to living wage across global supply chains. Few people in the world today have more practical, hands-on […]

The Elements of Business Sustainability Series: Sustainability Strategy with Tiffany Finley

Join us on Monday, November 12 for a workshop with Tiffany Finley! Tiffany will share experiences from her current role as the Materiality and Stakeholder Engagement Lead at Target and her time consulting across many different industries and geographies. We are happy to present the annual Erb Institute Fall Workshop Series: The Elements of Business […]

The Elements of Business Sustainability Series: Social Impact in the Workplace with Chhavi Ghuliani

As part of its fall speaker series, please join the Erb Institute for a workshop with Chhavi Ghuliani, Associate Director for BSR HERproject:  a model that brings together global brands, their suppliers, and local partners to create and implement workplace-based interventions on health, financial inclusion, and gender equality. Chhavi will discuss the key social and labor risks and […]

The Elements of Business Sustainability Series: Global Value Chains with Sean Ansett

As part of its fall speaker series, please join the Erb Institute for a workshop with Sean Ansett, President of At Stake Advisors Ltd. Sean is a sustainability executive with 20 years’ experience managing complexity, building multi-stakeholder partnerships, and spearheading change across the apparel, electronics and food sectors. He is founder of At Stake Advisors […]

The Elements of Business Sustainability Series: Cultivating Detroit — Diversity, Entrepreneurs and Good Food

In promoting social change, organizations benefit from diverse membership, yet diversity is difficult to achieve. Using data collected over a 15-month field study, Professors Sara Soderstrom and Kate Heinze examined how a social movement organization (SMO), FoodLab, mobilized a diverse collective of entrepreneurs, aligned with the good food movement. FoodLab articulated a vision for an […]

Shared-X Lecture

12:00pm - 2:00 pm Ross School of Business Former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, John Denniston and Tony Salas (former undersecretary of Agriculture for Peru) are coming to the University of Michigan to give a talk on the genesis of Shared-X, "A for-profit impact company." Shared-X is a partnership formed between Denniston and Salas  to find novel […]

Anti-Racist Community Engagement (For Students)

This interactive virtual workshop will interrogate the role white supremacy often plays in university community engagement experiences and will explore anti-racist approaches to our work in and with communities. The workshop is designed for students with prior knowledge or experience with community engagement who are interested in learning more about how to practice anti-racism in […]