Lucy Kellaway’s recent Financial Times commentary “How I Lost My 25-Year Battle Against Corporate Claptrap” made its way around staff inboxes at the Erb Institute. She attacks corporate “guff” that is full of cleverly crafted words and phrases—but that says,...
Elizabeth Kolburt, Erb Institute Purpose to Impact speaker 2017, took some time to speak with staff writer, Allison Burtka on our changing climate. We are killing our planet. Of course, it’s not quite that simple, but, as acclaimed writer Elizabeth Kolbert explains in...
Countdown to Redefining the Good Life by Allison BurtkaThe Sustainable Brands SB’17 conference is coming to Detroit soon—on May 22. The Erb Institute is a Sustainable Brands Conference Partner for this event, and the institute helped bring the conference to Detroit....
A firsthand look at strategy and sustainability in India Over the course of three weeks, I traveled from Chennai to Bangalore to Mumbai to Delhi with a group of U-M undergraduate business students learning about business strategy and sustainability in India. They were...
Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai and Managing Director, Terry Nelidov, were recently invited to Cuba to explore ways in which the Erb Institute might be a factor in helping to manage Cuba’s transition to a sustainable market economy. I’d never been to Cuba before this...
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...
The Erb Institute was featured in September's issue of Delta Sky Magazine for the dual degree MBA/MS program and it's work to create a sustainable world through the power of business. Erb Managing Director, Terry Nelidov and Erb Student, Marianna Kerppola share...
While many companies are already engaging with climate change and an array of other environmental issues, water is quickly emerging as an impactful driver of both business risk and opportunity in the 21st century. Water is a critical input for many supply chains,...
Remarks by Managing Director, Terry Nelidov at the 2015 Erb Institute Graduation dinner I would like to add two words to what Andy just said – “empathy” and “service”. One of my learnings from the Institute’s alumni engagements around the country last summer is that...
Remarks by Managing Director Terry Nelidov at the 2014 Erb Institute Holiday Gathering We were bringing all our thinking together under the pillar of “Sustainability Change Agents” – with an emphasis on systems thinking, including both social and environmental...