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...
In spite of the widespread proliferation of sustainability metrics and reporting frameworks, these systems lack consistent definitions, processes and standards for assessing social sustainability impacts. This has made it difficult to benchmark progress on social...
Not a month goes by without a media campaign linking the supply chain of a well-known brand with unsavory labor practices or environmental mismanagement. Such exposés can devalue brands and reduce well-meaning corporate sustainability initiatives to hypocrisy. Beyond...
Research by Lauren Lutzke, U-M SEAS Master’s Student; Caitlin Drummond, Erb Institute Postdoc; Joe Arvai, Erb Institute Faculty Director Article by Lauren Lutzke, M.S. Candidate in Behavior, Education, and Communication at the University of Michigan “Fake News” has...
By Merriam Haffar I had the great opportunity to host a roundtable discussion on setting science-based targets at Sustainable Brands’ 2018 New Metrics conference in Philadelphia in October. Science-based targets (SBTs) have received a growing amount of research...
The expectations of a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Erb Institute include the following: RESEARCH. Post-Doctoral Fellows are expected to contribute to the research agenda of the Institute. Produce Scholarly Research. The Post-Doctoral Fellow will submit for publication...
It's well known that some of the biggest issues of our time are polarized along religious or political lines, meaning that people with different religious and political affiliations tend to have different beliefs on these issues. A new paper by Erb Institute...
Uyanga Turmunkh’s Dissertation Success Postdoc fellow Uyanga Turmunkh successfully defended her dissertation on “Ambiguity in Social Dilemmas” at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her thesis examines the ambiguity in people’s behavior in social dilemmas, including how it...
Todd Schifeling’s New Position Todd Schifeling, an Erb postdoctoral fellow, has accepted the position of Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management Department at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. In this tenure-track faculty position, Schifeling will...
Published in the Harvard Business Review, June 17, 2016. The landscape of American corporations is changing. Since the financialization of the economy in the late 1970s, corporate governance practices have tightly linked the purpose of business with maximizing...