Business Sustainability 2.0: Market Transformation The concept of sustainability in business has become mainstream, and market forces have driven sustainability strategy. But, in its current form, business sustainability will not solve the root causes of the problems...
In Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview, Professors Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg provide a comprehensive overview of the academic research conducted on businesses and the natural environment for the past several decades. The book describes...
How have business scholars sought to understand the interactions between business and the natural environment, and where might the field be heading next? This concise volume by two leading scholars provides answers to these questions. The framework is the cumulation...
Business sustainability has come a long way, but problems such as climate change, water scarcity, species extinction, and many others continue to worsen. Fresh thought leadership from Andrew Hoffman at the Erb Institute is pivoting the thinking on how companies can...
The Erb Institute brings sustainability thought leaders to Ann Arbor each fall and winter as part of our Colloquium series, an informal research seminar series featuring the latest insights and cutting-edge thinking in a broadly defined sustainable enterprise field....
What 840 “Employees” Say about Creating Change Think interns aren’t like other types of employees? Think again. Since 2008, 840 graduate students have spent a summer working on corporate environmental and sustainability projects as fellows in the EDF Climate...
ANN ARBOR—The added weight, electricity demand and aerodynamic drag of the sensors and computers used in autonomous vehicles are significant contributors to their lifetime energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. However, when savings from...
Like all markets, social-benefit markets provide a platform for buyers and sellers to exchange commodities, but they are distinguished by their unique goal of improving social and environmental conditions. For example, most people are familiar with carbon trading...
Tom Lyon guest interview with Dan Loney on Knowledge@Wharton (Business radio Sirius XM111). Let’s start with your reaction to this possibility of selling new leases on sectors in the ocean and places along the Atlantic or Pacific coast. Could we see more...
The prevailing wisdom says that it pays to be green. However, some research has demonstrated negative market consequences to companies’ voluntary emissions reductions. Why is this? One answer may lie in “regulator discretion.” In “Self-Regulation and Regulatory...