How do you measure a company’s social impact? Many sustainability metrics and reporting frameworks offer ways for companies to assess their environmental and economic impacts, but social impact is more difficult to measure—and even to define. A company’s social impact...
Erb Institute students have many opportunities to pursue short- and long-term projects to both further their career goals and have a positive impact on the world. One of those opportunities is Ross Open Road. Ross Open Road supports social entrepreneurs across the...
Soon we’ll be celebrating the start of a new year, and with it will come New Year’s resolutions. I’ll challenge myself to resolve to change some habit or way of thinking. How about you? What resolutions will you make for 2019? On Thursday, January 31st, at Hop Cat in...
I was excited to attend and present at Sustainable Brands 2018. My research focuses on how organizations are engaging with sustainability challenges, and my work’s motivation stems from my deep-seated hope that business will transform how we address the many societal...
Partnerships and Purpose at Sustainable Brands By Sara Soderstrom, Erb Faculty Member I was excited to attend and present at Sustainable Brands 2018. My research focuses on how organizations are engaging with sustainability challenges, and my work’s motivation stems...
By Allison Torres Burtka and Wren Montgomery Is water a human right or a commodity? It’s treated like both. As water scarcity becomes more pressing, both public and private entities have had to examine their stances on how water resources should be controlled. These...
Activists and industry For many people, the combination of activists and industry brings to mind images of protestors chanting while marching with signs and banners in front of a company’s store, headquarters or production facility. For others, it suggests the...
The Erb Institute partnered with the Detroit Climate Action Collaborative (DCAC) to produce the toolbox Climate Change Strategies for Detroit Small Businesses. This newest toolbox in the Erb Institute’s Sustainability Management Toolbox series lays out four broad...
Last year, I delivered the closing remarks at SB’16 San Diego, as the flagship conference had announced that after ten years in San Diego, they were moving to Detroit for SB’17 Detroit. Then, I advised the Sustainable Brands community, “don’t just fly in … dig in” to...
Countdown to Redefining the Good Life The Sustainable Brands SB’17 conference is coming to Detroit next week. The Erb Institute is a Sustainable Brands Conference Partner for this event, and the institute helped bring the conference to Detroit. The conference’s theme...