Detroit: Serving and Learning in our Community / Report No. 124, 4 pages This report features the revitalization of Detroit’s lower east side, adaptive reuse of inner-city buildings, Ross School’s revitalization & business (R&B) initiative, new internships at...
By Mary Fritz, Erb '13 and Patrick Huang, Ross School of Business '13 This story is cross-posted on WDI Global Impact. “Social ventures can use logic models to communicate their effectiveness to investors and funders, and to identify how to improve their impact, all...
Dedicated to Professor Gautam Kaul, who taught me that finance is about so much more than money, and for whom finance = love. Bravo! The United Nations has created a methodology for building balance sheets for countries and it includes measurements of human, natural,...
"Rio+20: Coalitions Driving Bottom-Up Change" Brookings Institute report, co-authored by Allison Shapiro, Erb '12. Experts from the Brookings Institution explore the critical issues and offer policy recommendations for leaders to consider in order to promote...
As Ford Motor Company's manager of social sustainability, David Berdish is at the vanguard of executive chairman Bill Ford's goal of transforming Ford "from a motor company to a mobility company." Read more: The Blue Oval Goes Green
This post appeared in Next Billion on April 5, 2012 Rye Barcott coined the phrase "talent is universal; opportunity is not" in his 2011 book It Happened on the Way to War, which described his experience living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi prior to beginning his...
This post appeared in GreenBiz on February 27, 2012 Editor's Note: This is the final article in a seven-week series by Nathan Springer that will chronicle in-depth the lessons from a course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business on how to become a...
This post appeared in GreenBiz on February 7, 2012 Editor's Note: This is the fifth article in a seven-week series by Nathan Springer that will chronicle in-depth the lessons from a course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business on how to become a...
Cynthia's company, Wello, based in Rajasthan, India, is aimed at people — most of them women — who must walk long distances to bring drinking water to the home. Her cylinder-shaped product allows women to roll water home from the source rather than carry it on their...
Erb Entrepreneurs Cynthia Koenig, Erb '11 and Colm Fay, Erb '12 launch award winning social venture helping people to transport safe drinking water in areas where it is not readily available. "There’s beauty in simplicity. Just ask entrepreneur Cynthia Koenig, MBA/MS...