Conscientious consumers are repeatedly encouraged to eat local, buy organic, seek out fair trade labels and ask about the traceability of a product’s supply chain. As sales of organic and ethically labeled products rise, companies both large and small have focused...
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...
For the second year in a row, a team from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business has won Accenture’s Innovation Challenge, which brings in MBA students to tackle a challenge that one of its nonprofit partners faces. This year, the partner was USA for...
Allison is the Erb Institute’s Writer. Her career as a writer and editor spans various publications and nonprofit organizations, on topics ranging from the environment to education to the law. As a freelance writer, her work has been published by the Sierra Club, the...
In America, the agricultural sector is responsible for barely one percent of total energy consumption. But it's a different picture in India, where a whopping 18 percent of the nation's electricity goes to power agricultural water pumps. Problems in Indian...
Stephanie is the Director of SFU Beedie's Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability and the founder of the Embedding Project - a unique public-benefit research project that brings together leading global firms to help them embed sustainability across their...
MBA/MS, Class of 2011 Trip O’Shea is a Vice President with Encourage Capital, focused on sustainable fisheries finance and other environmental investment opportunities. Prior to joining Encourage (formerly EKO Asset Management) in 2013, Trip was an investment banker...
MBA/MS, Class of 2016 Andrea is currently a Product Manager, in Microgrid Strategy Implementation, at PG&E. Andrea is working to help the energy industry reach its potential to create equitable economic opportunities, and build resilience against the risks of a...
Rachel Fineberg Sylvan is a driven, experienced, and collaborative sustainability leader with 15 years of experience bridging business and environmental interests. She specializes in integrating sustainability into core business culture and functions across complex...
MBA/MS, Class of 2011 Sarah is focusing her studies on corporate environmental strategy and finance with a particular focus on climate change adaptation. She spent a summer working for Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy and Operations practice where she returned after...