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...
MBA/MS, Class of 2003 Jessica Urdangarin is a Senior Consultant at BrownFlynn, a corporate sustainability and governance consulting firm. In this role, she leads client materiality assessments, helps clients set sustainability goals, and develops sustainability...
MBA/MS, Class of 2011 Cynthia is a firm believer in the potential for business to alleviate poverty. Her career has focused on incubating mission-based businesses designed to alleviate poverty in the developing world She has been actively involved in the launch of...
MBA/MS, Class of 2017 While at the University of Michigan, Ian studied entrepreneurship, finance, and climate change adaptation. He conducted research for Great Lakes Integrated Sciences Assessment on how organizations in the Great Lakes use climate data. He also...
The Erb Institute welcomes you to join us in celebrating a recent award for one of our new Erber's, Carissa De Young. Carissa is a newly-minted recipient of the Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship. A path that started with a week long service trip to Mexico as a 15...
MBA/MS, Class of 2003 Stephanie is an IT Project Manager with Eaton Vance Management. She oversees the technology development for EV’s Sustainable Investment and Research teams, as well as a broader portfolio of investment technology projects. Previously, she was an...