Movirtu's Cloud Phone Service: Funding a Base-of-the-Pyramid Venture (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on (Case study # 1-429-162) – published 01/2012, 18 pages. Developed by: Erb faculty affiliate, Ted London Description: Who are the right investors for a...
Stringency, governance, media coverage and diffusion of environmental and social labeling schemes Co-authored by: Pavel Castka and Charles J. Corbett Abstract The increased focus on social and environmental issues has led to a range of labels being used to inform...
Elise Hunter's ('13) interview with Mechai Viravaidya (Thailand's 'Mr. Condom') on the successes of one of his social enterprises is featured in the Huffington Post Social Entrepreneurship section as Cabbages and Condoms. A public health advocate and entrepreneur...
Detroit: Serving and Learning in our Community / Report No. 124, 4 pages This report features the revitalization of Detroit’s lower east side, adaptive reuse of inner-city buildings, Ross School’s revitalization & business (R&B) initiative, new internships at...
Working at the Forefront of Climate-Change Action and Opportunity / Report No. 131, 4 pages Energized by overwhelming scientific evidence and agreement that human activity is causing serious changes in the Earth’s climate, the Erb Institute has joined environmental,...
Presentation sponsored by the Environmental Law and Policy Program Clean tech is tough right now. Vestas pulled out of the U.S. A123 went bankrupt. Solyndra is a bust. Carbon legislation is the new living dead. Low natural gas prices have killed the financials of...
“Rio+20 has shown that business will have to drive the solution because we have seen that the process where governments have to come to an agreement is becoming more and more difficult. In the future, we will look back and see that this was the first time business...
Professor Tom Lyon was among the 12-member Steering Committee of international business and civil society leaders and academic experts that produced the report, Toward Sustainability: The Roles and Limitations of Certification. Funded by The David and Lucile Packard...
This is the first in a three-part series on Sustainability in Sports Anyone who has recently been to a large-scale sporting event knows that sustainability hasn’t hit the mainstream sports world just yet. Several developments over the past few years, however, suggest...
People complain that my generation’s “addiction” to technology will lead us down the path of unsustainability. I think they are wrong. While it is true that my generation, Gen Y (those born after 1980) is the quickest demographic to adopt new computing trends, the...