At the Erb Institute, we teach about the power of business to create sustainable change, so we are excited to announce that Erb Faculty Member, Andy Hoffman, has been recognized for his innovative teaching on Market Transformation as a 2016 Aspen Institute Faculty...
From trying to hold multiple crates of fruit to discussing the feasibility of market solutions, balance became an idea that I repeatedly thought about during my 2015 summer internship with the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture’s mobile market....
Every month the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise highlights a particular area of interest surrounding sustainability. This month the Erb Institute focuses on business sustainability; which is central to everything that our institute stands for. The...
Last year, the two of us flew to Tianjin, China, for a week-long Erb Cool Project. The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) in China had approached Erb to invite two students to collaborate with the Tianjin Green Supply Chain Network (TGCC) on a website. TGCC is a...
In February, I spent several days on EARTH University’s campus in the Guacimo region of Costa Rica, not far from Limon. I was there to visit family working with the university, and I had heard EARTH was a significant supplier of bananas to Whole Foods Market in the...
Volkswagen's Clean Diesel Dilemma (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-484) – published 03/2016, 24 pages Developed by: Chris Monti (Erb '18), Vitor Lira, Jefferson Sanchez and Namit Jhanwar. This case was written under the...
Uber and the Sharing Economy: Global Market Expansion and Reception (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-479) – published 02/2016, 20 pages Developed by: Qingxu Jin (Bill), Carl Spevacek, Nasreddine El-Dehaibi, and Whitney Johnson....
VERGE is a yearly conference offered by GreenBiz (originating in 2011) and has been gaining considerable momentum. In fact, it has outgrown its current location and will be moving to a bigger Silicon Valley location for next year’s event. This year’s conference...
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Congratulations to Erb student Mikaela Rodkin and her U-M Fresh Fare student team members on winning 2nd place at the SPH Innovation in Action competition! Fresh Fare strives to increase access to healthy food through a transportation collaboration between grocery...