Countdown to Redefining the Good Life The Sustainable Brands SB’17 conference is coming to Detroit on May 22, with the theme of “Redefining the Good Life.” Kerry Duggan has served as deputy director for policy to Vice President Joe Biden and as deputy director of the...
SB’17 Detroit’s Youth Impact Project: Thinking, Making, Doing Excitement has been building in and around Detroit for the Sustainable Brands (SB) conference convening later this month. This excitement was evident two nights ago at the Charles H. Wright Museum of...
Countdown to Redefining the Good Life by Allison BurtkaThe Sustainable Brands SB’17 conference is coming to Detroit soon—on May 22. The Erb Institute is a Sustainable Brands Conference Partner for this event, and the institute helped bring the conference to Detroit....
The University of Michigan’s student-led Social Venture Fund notched its first-ever win at the 2017 MIINT competition in April, receiving the Best Diligence Award for its high-caliber, professional-quality impact investment recommendation to an expert panel of judges....
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...
Report: How Do We Get There? EDF Manages a New Diversity Plan (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on WDI Publishing (Case study #1-430-503) – published 04/2017, 20 pages Developed by: Chris Affeldt, Hannah Sherman, Richa Yadav, and Brandon List. This case was...
Nearly two years ago, through the William Davidson Institute, I had the opportunity to spend a summer in rural Rwanda working with the Ihangane Project (TIP), a small nonprofit dedicated to improving health care outcomes in the Ruli catchment area. Millions of people...
Kimberly Hill Knott has convened strategic high-level meetings with elected officials, government representatives, academic, nonprofit and business leaders to address a variety of environmental and workforce development issues. For a decade, she served as a...
Sean Ansett is a Sustainability Executive with 20 years’ experience managing complexity, building multi-stakeholder partnerships, and spearheading change across the apparel, electronics and food sectors. He is founder of At Stake Advisors Limited, a global...
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon was quoted in this recent radio story on the continued struggle of Flint, MI residents as they manage through the crisis of lead tainted water.