Andy Hoffman teaches business and sustainability courses at the University of Michigan and studies cultural issues and the knowledge that impacts decisions. He visited Costa Rica and spoke with Irene Rodríguez S. at ‘La Nación’. Translated to English from the...
A team from the Ross School of Business immersed themselves in the salmon farming industry in Magallanes, in the Patagonia region of Chile. As part of their multidisciplinary action project (MAP), they worked to identify the qualities that make salmon from this region...
Laughter. This is the sound that will forever remind me of my week in Cuenca, Ecuador, with the women of Casa María Amor. It was the first day of our two-day Women’s Entrepreneurial Empowerment Workshop. As an introductory ideation activity to demonstrate the concept...
By Gabriel Thoumi and Ian Robinson The glaciers along Ecuador’s eastern cordillera—Chimborazo, Cayambe, Antizana and Cotopaxi—are quickly disappearing, and glaciers along Ecuador’s western cordillera—Cotacachi, Corazón and Sincholagua—have been completely lost in the...
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...
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...
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...
Since September 2015, students from the Ross School of Business and Erb Institute have worked on consulting projects for Shared-X, an agricultural social-venture startup supporting increased prosperity for smallholder farmers. As part of this action-based education,...
A Michigan Ross MAP team was featured in EMOL Economy for their work on a solar research project with The Chilean Association of Solar Energy (Acesol) this spring. The Ross students on the team include Nick Barrett (Erb MBA/MS '18), Andrew Dabrowski (MBA '17),...
This blog was originally posted on the Cultivating Change: Agriculture and Food Security Blog. Ian Robinson recently returned from a Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) assignment in Panama working with another Partners’ project called EducaFuturo. Below he shares his experience:...