Kellogg: A Partnership Under Fire (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study # 1-429-378)– published 02/2014, 16 pages. Developed by: Nancy Gephart ('14), Stephen Ahn ('15), Jennifer Bowe, and Julia Winfield under the supervision of Andrew...
Now available in Spanish: Morder la manzana: derechos laborales y el papel de las empresas y los consumidores en una cadena global de suministros (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report in Spanish on WDI (Case study # 1-429-406)– published 11/2014, 16 pages....
H&M's Global Supply Chain Management Sustainability: Factories and Fast Fashion (download pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on WDI (Case study # 1-429-373)– published 02/2014, 16 pages. Developed by: Marianna Kerppola ('16), Ryan Moody, Likangjin Zheng, and...
The Role of the Private Sector in Addressing Resource Scarcity Risk (Executive Summary) The Problem: Food Scarcity, Raw Materials, Energy, Water and Land This paper, the first of its series, reflects key discussion themes among roundtable participants and outside...
Within a few minutes of the plane landing this past December 8, we both had stuffy noses and irritated throats. My companion and I were in Shanghai to deliver presentations at the Mobility Conference hosted by UM-SMART and UM-SJTU Joint Institute. The smog was unreal....
By: Susan Kayser, Erb Institute Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Abstract: Catastrophes increase pressure upon all firms within the industry. However, certain firms risk larger punishments after the event. I posit that firms with substantive corporate...
Recent business school graduates launching a startup typically go after “traditional” investment from angel investors, VCs, business plan competitions, tech incubators, and, increasingly, social venture funds. But Rich Grousset and I learned that BizeeBox, our...
In our previous post we argued that without a global equity test, sustainability is reduced to simply a means of maintaining the status quo of excessive consumption and production. In this post, we advance our argument by presenting a series of steps that can help...
Erb post-doc Laurie Kaye Nijaki worked with the City of Los Angeles in 2007-2008 to plant the seed of the Green Building Program and to push for its initial adoption through City Council. Over the summer of 2013, the program received $1 million towards implementation,...
The City of Los Angeles Green Business Program is designed to certify businesses in the City of Los Angeles based upon their adoption of environmental practices. As a beyond compliance program, businesses (concentrating most immediately on restaurants, auto repair...