Professor Lyon is quoted extensively, and the Erb Institute cited, in the Ann Arbor Business Monthly story on rising gas prices. "To help untangle the question of oil prices, we spoke with Thomas P. Lyon, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Directors...
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Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing in the Climate Change Debate
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman is featured in, Organization & Environment, Talking Past Each Other? Cultural Framing of Skeptical and Convinced Logics in the Climate Change Debate Abstract This article analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics...
ReGenerate Wins Rice University Business Plan Competition Prize
Congratulations to 2011 Erbers Paul Davis and Hunt Briggs! The ReGenerate Team won the $100,000 Waste Management "Think Green" prize for their patent-pending our Compact Organic Waste System (COWSO) which combines anaerobic digestion and aerobic composting to...
Q&A with Andy Hoffman featured in the New York Times’ Green Blog
"Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study."
The Green Potential for Private Equity
How and Why Private Equity Firms Should Manage Environmental Risks and Opportunities By Annie Barton and Beth Uhlhorn, Erb '10; Faculty Advisors: Andy Hoffman and Gautam Kaul ABSTRACT: Private equity firms have recently become a target for both social and...
ReGenerate takes student grand prize at the first Accelerate Michigan Business Competition
Hunt Briggs and Paul Davis took Grand Prize for their company ReGenerate at the first Accelerate Michigan business competition Friday, December 10. From ACCELERATE MICHIGAN, Dec 13, 2010: The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition awarded over $1 million in cash...
Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?
Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation Thomas P. Lyon, University of Michigan Haitao Yin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University The Energy Journal 31 by the IAEE: 131-155. Renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) for electricity generation...
Rift over climate change is social, not scientific
Professor Andy Hoffman explores the cultural underpinnings of the public climate change debate with Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation. "Rift over climate change is social, not scientific"
The culture and discourse of climate skepticism
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman was published in Strategic Organization Abstract: Working paper abstract (100-250 words): While the scientific, technical and policy components of the climate change issue are of critical importance, climate change is also a cultural...
Andy Hoffman sparks unique historical perspective on the climate change debate
"A Cultural Barrier to Action on Climate Change."