As a follow-up to Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai's publication in Nature Climate Change, Michigan Radio talks with Joe about his recent research which attempts to understand exactly what it takes to get people to care about climate change. This study was co-authored...
So-called “nudge units” are popping up in governments all around the world. The best-known examples include the U.K.’s Behavioural Insights Team, created in 2010, and the White House-based Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, introduced by the Obama administration in...
By Anita Lin After our first year of business school, my three teammates and I set off for a month-long road trip. We started in our backyard city of Detroit and made our way over to the St. Paul, Minn., area, Fargo, N.D., and Minneapolis. We drove the 1100+ miles in...
Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Human Performance An unresolved debate lingers concerning the effect of performance-contingent rewards on motivation and performance. Behavioral psychology and economics suggest that performance-contingent rewards improve...
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman in the Journal of Change Management Abstract Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do...
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman's response to this paper: In their paper "How to save a leaky ship" John Lyneis and John Sterman ask the simple question "Why are win-win opportunities so often left on the table?" Their answer lies in an analysis of the organizational...
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Our Erb Institute community dinner coincides with some big news out of New York. Earlier today, the United Nations announced their post-2015 development agenda, which includes 17 Goals for Sustainable Development. Many of us came to our work on sustainability in Erb...
Turning rhetoric into reality in pursuit of the triple-bottom-line - Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Risk Analysis an International Journal Many business cases, and business school classes, are overflowing with high-sounding and aspirational rhetoric...
The promise of asymmetric interventions for addressing risks to environmental systems. Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Environment Systems & Decisions Recent studies suggest that people the world over are becoming increasingly concerned about the...