Josh is the Founding Partner of Clearstone Enterprises, a venture investment, design, and innovation platform that targets and builds businesses that profit from “giving a voice to the voiceless”. Josh was up until recently a member of Korn Ferry’s Asset Management...
“Be Bold” was the theme of the 2016 Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Conference last November in New York City. I was able to attend, thanks to Cool Projects funding, and it was my first sustainability conference. As a career changer new to the world of...
MBA/MS, Class of 2007 Jeff is currently Director of Project Origination at Clean Focus Renewables, a financier and developer of large-scale solar photovoltaic systems. Prior to joining Clean Focus, Jeff was Senior Director of Sales at SunShare where he led customer...
Research from the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute has found that the careful selection of numerical frames in communications regarding prosocial or socially responsible behaviors can make these communications more persuasive. When people hear statistics, it’s...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is focused on research of the oceans and the atmosphere. It provides decision-makers with information they need—in the form of weather forecasts,...
I've been part of the leadership team for Net Impact at Ross in the last two years, but it wasn't until this year, in my third and final year as an Erber, that I attended the Net Impact Conference. I was beyond excited because I had heard great things from fellow Net...
Listen to the conversation on NPR's Stateside with Joe Arvai, Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan "Word came down recently that Shell — the second-largest oil...
Joe Arvai on the New York Times Energy for Tomorrow meeting. "A strategy for facilitating an energy transition isn’t the same thing as discussions about all the things we could or should do, or that we have done. Putting it another way, energy strategies should not be...
"For the foreseeable future, business will be — must be — inseparable from the concept of sustainability, if the human project on Earth is to endure. The market must, and will, adjust to recognize the global nature of the issues we face. The next iteration of...
I’ve always had a deep-seated distrust of big business. Maybe it’s because I grew up with a social worker and teacher as parents, or because my first job out of school was with a nonprofit focused on fighting corporate abuses. Whatever the reason, this wariness...