Ethical apparel brands committed to human rights This month on social media and the Erb Perspective Blog, the Erb Institute is focusing on human rights and human development. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of...
Results for research on: Human Development
The Erb Institute Partners with the India Centre for Responsible Business
Erb Research Manager Melissa Zaksek and I were in Delhi earlier this month for the India Centre for Responsible Business’s fourth annual International Sustainability Standards Conference. International standards have traditionally been developed by western brands,...
Carmen Quinonez
Carmen is responsible for providing communications and digital marketing support to the institute. Carmen brings deep editorial, social media and video production skills from her experience at Omnia Media in Los Angeles, where she developed a new digital women’s...
Erb Faculty, Andy Hoffman Key Factor in Boosting Case Study Output at WDI
“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...
A Conference and Conversations With Locals Shed Light on Life in Cuba
Send two Erb students to attend the Research Initiative for the Sustainable Development of Cuba (RISDoC) seminar, and they will immerse themselves to experience the Cuban sharing economy to the fullest. Cuba was once a luxury tourist destination for Americans and a...
Notes from a Trans-America Adventure – Erb Student Chris Owen
I glided quietly into the darkness. Sunset slowly disappearing behind me, I pressed on—this was a race. Having cycled 2,000 miles through the temperate Cascade and Rocky Mountains, I needed to change my strategy for the Great Plains. The flatlands were windy and hot,...
Amanda Willis
Amanda is looking to develop and drive innovative methods to further incorporate renewable energy and sustainability into business and society. Previously, Amanda spent 5 years as an engineer in the aerospace industry. She worked in a variety of roles such as space...
Roxanne Bradley
A Call to My Fellow MBAs: Let’s Seize This Opportunity to Make the World a Better Place
Integrating Business into the Human Rights Dialogue By Monika Johnson, MBA/MS ‘19 Today’s world politics call into question which institutions are most capable of and responsible for upholding individual social and political liberties. Is it business, nonprofits,...
Raising the Bar for Detroit’s Youth – (Sustainable Brands 2017)
Last year, I delivered the closing remarks at SB’16 San Diego, as the flagship conference had announced that after ten years in San Diego, they were moving to Detroit for SB’17 Detroit. Then, I advised the Sustainable Brands community, “don’t just fly in … dig in” to...