Lauren comes to the Erb Institute with a passion for sustainable enterprise and a deep commitment to helping businesses embed sustainability and social impact into their core operations. Currently pursuing an MBA at the Ross School of Business and an MS in...
Results for research on: Food
Greg Phillips
Greg is interested in changing the ways we produce and consume energy in the United States. His passion for energy was sparked over summers spent living on a farm in Pennsylvania where he helped construct a passive solar house. Greg earned a degree in environmental...
Chris Bowman
Chris is interested in utility-scale renewable energy and storage. He comes to Erb with over three years of experience in solar energy, most recently based in Colorado managing commercial energy development projects. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brown...
Madeleine Carnemark
Madeleine joins the Erb Institute after 3 years of working on United States agricultural policy and research at an environmental NGO and volunteering with urban farms and food justice organizations across the country. Madeleine is committed to working with food...
Ricky Wozniak
Ricky joined the Erb Institute to pursue a career that improves the sustainability of foods we eat every day. Before entering the University of Michigan, he worked at Amazon for 3.5 years in Seattle. There, he managed cross-functional relationships with packaged food...
Harrison Rogers
Harrison is passionate about helping companies sustainably source their products to address brand and operational risks throughout their supply chains - specifically in the food and retail industries. Prior to the Erb Institute, he worked as a public sector consultant...
Emily Doyle
Emily is passionate about responsible business strategies and is interested in sustainable food systems and global supply chains. Prior to Erb, she worked at an international development nonprofit, which provided technical and financial assistance to grassroots...
Can Hemp Ease the Transition to Organic Farming? – Patagonia MBA Case Competition
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...
Natural Products Expo highlights challenges of launching companies with sustainable missions
In March, over 80,000 people made their way to Anaheim, Calif., for the natural products industry’s 37th annual tradeshow. I had the opportunity to visit this year’s expo as part of the MBArk program, which helps MBA students learn about career paths in the natural...
Climate Change and the Napa Valley Wine Industry
Report: Climate Change and the Napa Valley Wine Industry (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on WDI Publishing (Case study #1-430-510) – published 04/2017, 22 pages[/text-with-icon] Developed by: Alex Engel, Robert Meyer, and Sarah Perry. This case was...