Erb's Managing Director Terry Nelidov, Associate Director of Research Tom Lyon, and Erb Post-doc alumnus and Shanghai Jiaotong University Associate Professor Haitao Yin, discussed risks and opportunities in business sustainability at AmCham Shanghai on July 10, 2014....
What happens when a Cameroonian medical student, a Finnish social entrepreneur, an American public health professional, an Italian architect, and a Kenyan actor turned medical student, get together in a room? A lot of Post-it notes, a vibrant pitch presentation, and...
President Mary Sue Coleman announced on April 1st that U-M will adopt a worker safety initiative by recommendation of the President's Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights. The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh initiative is a five year...
Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Environment Systems & Decisions Supporting international development decisions. For more than half a century, research and practice in international development has focused on improving the quality of life of people...
Now available in Spanish: Morder la manzana: derechos laborales y el papel de las empresas y los consumidores en una cadena global de suministros (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report in Spanish on WDI (Case study # 1-429-406)– published 11/2014, 16 pages....
H&M's Global Supply Chain Management Sustainability: Factories and Fast Fashion (download pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on WDI (Case study # 1-429-373)– published 02/2014, 16 pages. Developed by: Marianna Kerppola ('16), Ryan Moody, Likangjin Zheng, and...
By: Susan Kayser, Erb Institute Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan Abstract: Catastrophes increase pressure upon all firms within the industry. However, certain firms risk larger punishments after the event. I posit that firms with substantive corporate...
In mid September I attended the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China as a student reporter. One of the most surprising themes of the conferencewas that it may already be too late to deal with overpopulation. Johan Rockström,...
This video does a beautiful job of answering one of the questions that came up in yesterday's Erb Institute Advisory Council Meeting: What exactly do we mean by social entrepreneurship? Sally Osberg, CEO of the Skoll Foundation, describes "the social entrepreneur" as...
This blog is cross-posted on Triple Pundit Sustainability goes mainstream, but not yet global Business sustainability has gone mainstream—at least in the developed world. Companies tout sustainability reports; hire Chief Sustainability Officers; promote their...