Can businesses take the lead on transforming our society into a more sustainable environment? Andrew J. Hoffman | University of Michigan Solutions to climate change require new types of aggressive thinking. While global treaties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are...
Ever since my experience building an ecommerce venture as a Peace Corps volunteer in Armenia, I have been fascinated by how technology can help solve the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. When I stumbled upon the Accelerate Good Global Summit,...
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon was quoted in this recent radio story on the continued struggle of Flint, MI residents as they manage through the crisis of lead tainted water.
Uyanga Turmunkh’s Dissertation Success Postdoc fellow Uyanga Turmunkh successfully defended her dissertation on “Ambiguity in Social Dilemmas” at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her thesis examines the ambiguity in people’s behavior in social dilemmas, including how it...
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Research from the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute has found that the careful selection of numerical frames in communications regarding prosocial or socially responsible behaviors can make these communications more persuasive. When people hear statistics, it’s...
Todd Schifeling’s New Position Todd Schifeling, an Erb postdoctoral fellow, has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management Department at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. In this tenure-track faculty position, Schifeling will...
Listen to the conversation on NPR's Stateside with Joe Arvai, Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan "Word came down recently that Shell — the second-largest oil...
"For the foreseeable future, business will be — must be — inseparable from the concept of sustainability, if the human project on Earth is to endure. The market must, and will, adjust to recognize the global nature of the issues we face. The next iteration of...