Allie Goldstein and her master's project team attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar. Her return to the States with unusually warm weather and a mind buzzing with reflections made her reconsider whether or not her and her...
This blog is cross-posted on BSR.com. I recently read American Wasteland, the 2010 book by Jonathan Bloom that analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States. Bloom’s main thesis is that we can significantly reduce the amount of food waste we generate by...
Phel Meyer ('13) analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States with author of American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom. "Given last summer’s heat wave and the food shortages and price increases we can expect as a consequence, I would think that food waste reduction...
This blog is cross-posted on GreenBiz.com. As a summer MBA intern in the Walmart Sustainability Department, I had an amazing and rare opportunity. I was able to put into practice the sustainability rhetoric that’s repeated every day in my classes and green news...
The Erb Foundation Grant continually impacts a variety of areas within sustainability and the University of Michigan. "The $4.5 million grant from the Erb Family Foundation to help establish the University of Michigan Water Center continues the Erb family's long...
By Mary Fritz, Erb '13 and Patrick Huang, Ross School of Business '13 This story is cross-posted on WDI Global Impact. “Social ventures can use logic models to communicate their effectiveness to investors and funders, and to identify how to improve their impact, all...
This story is cross-posted in Network for Business Sustainability Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil In an effort to re-orient business schools’ curricula, the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), an academically-minded...
Dedicated to Professor Gautam Kaul, who taught me that finance is about so much more than money, and for whom finance = love. Bravo! The United Nations has created a methodology for building balance sheets for countries and it includes measurements of human, natural,...
Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil “In the past business schools have been too concerned about being the best in the world. Now they need to aspire to be the best for the world” (statement from the Principles of Responsible Management...
"Rio+20: Coalitions Driving Bottom-Up Change" Brookings Institute report, co-authored by Allison Shapiro, Erb '12. Experts from the Brookings Institution explore the critical issues and offer policy recommendations for leaders to consider in order to promote...