Last year, the two of us flew to Tianjin, China, for a week-long Erb Cool Project. The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) in China had approached Erb to invite two students to collaborate with the Tianjin Green Supply Chain Network (TGCC) on a website. TGCC is a...
My previous post – “How a Few Offenders Create Industry-Wide Reputational Issues: ‘The Reputation Commons Problem’” – focused on how the collapse of Rana Plaza created a reputation commons problem for the apparel industry. In review, a Reputation Commons Problem...
Uber and the Sharing Economy: Global Market Expansion and Reception (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-479) – published 02/2016, 20 pages Developed by: Qingxu Jin (Bill), Carl Spevacek, Nasreddine El-Dehaibi, and Whitney Johnson....
Two and a half years ago on April 24th, 2013 an eight-story building housing five garment manufacturers collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,515 more. The building’s top floors had been constructed without permits and to cut costs it was...
Alcoa: The Race to Light-weighting (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-435) – published 08/2015, 24 pages Now available in Spanish: Alcoa: La carrera hacia el aligeramiento (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case...
Topics within this report include: Promoting Sustainability in Health Practices and Delivery Bringing Lessons-learned from Eastern Africa to the William Davidson Institute Building Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Global Health Outcomes Promoting Healthcare...
by Santiago Bunce This week we open a parenthesis in our 7 post series about the positive impacts of BoP strategies to take a look at cases where profits trump development goals. So far we have argued that offering products and services in BoP markets not only...
By Kelsea Ballantyne When I joined the U of M Presidents Committee for Labor Standards and Human Rights last year, I had no idea how much it would open my mind to the power universities have to transform global supply-chains. Helping to organize the Symposium on...
New Report offers insights from clean energy stakeholders in Seoul Korea in May 2014. Erb Executive in Residence, Tom Catania participated as a moderator at the event. Read the report on Public-Private Roundtables at the Fifth Clean Energy Ministerial
Erb's Managing Director Terry Nelidov, Associate Director of Research Tom Lyon, and Erb Post-doc alumnus and Shanghai Jiaotong University Associate Professor Haitao Yin, discussed risks and opportunities in business sustainability at AmCham Shanghai on July 10, 2014....