The rise of what is broadly called “big data” has given new impetus to those who believe that more and better information will solve our decision-making troubles. The term big data is generally taken to refer to the digital exhaust from our time spent online: our...
“The volume of publishing over the past year is unprecedented within WDI Publishing,” said Sandy Draheim, manager of marketing and case publishing at WDI. Among the new cases are 10 from graduate students in Professor Andrew Hoffman’s “Strategies for Sustainable...
Erb faculty director, Joe Arvai among experts suggesting that a reframing is necessary to provide actionable information for improved business sustainability outcomes. Climate change is increasingly being framed as a risk management problem to both businesses and...
Connect with the Erb Institute | Business for Sustainability newsroom at 3BL here. Erb Institute, faculty member, Tom Lyon along with A. Wren Montgomery and Kimberly S. Wolske, have recently completed research which considers differences between Millennial’s...
Gore is the most polarizing figure in climate politics—disputed on the left, and widely loathed on the right. According to research by environmental scholar Andrew Hoffman published in 2011, nearly 40 percent of all articles casting doubt on climate change mentioned...
How can a company like Patagonia most effectively work to change the global agricultural system, to sequester more soil carbon, to stop topsoil erosion and to have a positive impact on agricultural lands? This is the question our group set out to answer between...
If there’s one group that’s basking in the long shadow cast by Donald Trump’s ill-fated decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, it’s business. In story after story, reporters and pundits are hailing businesses – large and small – as the...
By Andy Hoffman - Faculty Member, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. When politicians distort science, academics and scientists tend to watch in shock from the sidelines rather than speak out. But in an age of “fake news” and “alternative facts,” we need...
Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman co-authors new report "The subject of sustainability has long been an interest in higher education, not just as a way of operating but also as an academic discipline. Until recently it has been the domain primarily of schools of the...
‘THE MARKETS ARE FAR MORE THAN DONALD TRUMP’S STATEMENTS ON A TREATY WITH THE U.N.’ Market experts have some good news for environmentalists: Markets transcend Trump. “The markets are far more than Donald Trump’s statements on a treaty with the U.N.,” Andrew Hoffman...