This piece was written after attending the Shared Value Leadership Summit 2015: Business at its Best, May 12-13, 2015 in New York City. In 1970, Milton Friedman stated that the sole purpose of a business was to make money for its shareholders. In 2009, Jack Welch...
This blog was originally posted on the U-M William Davidson Institute WDI Fellow blog. 26 hours on three planes and I finally make it to the Bandaranaike International Airport of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I’m greeted by Angela, the housemother at Grace, and her husband...
Erb Faculty Director Andy Hoffman says the Encyclical on climate change could be a 'game changer'. Read more about this topic in recent The Conversation article by Andy Hoffman and Erb student Jenna White titled "The pope as a messenger: making climate change a moral...
In April, I traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend “How Business Can Tackle Deforestation,” a conference hosted by Innovation Forum, a London-based organization that convenes organizations around sustainability trends and opportunities for business. The two-day event...
Erb students, Kristin Steiner and Mike Barg, and SNRE student Brittany Szczepanik are working as business partners to reduce product packaging from food and personal care products. Startup idea, fulFill, is working to reduce or even eliminate packaging waste from...
My interest in becoming an Erb Institute student began, perhaps not unlike others, with a desire to make a positive impact on the world. Gaining work experience in emerging markets was not originally on my to-do list for graduate school, but after a MAP project in...
A blog written by Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman and Erb Student, Jenna White was featured by Andrew Revkin, in the New York Times Op-Ed. The blog discussed the framing of climate change as a moral issue. Read "The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral...
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...
I feel a tiny pin prick to my heart when I see a fellow student casually toss a soda can into the trash. Plastic bottle: pin prick. Half-eaten pizza: pin prick. Wadded-up napkins: pin prick. When I arrived on campus, I was in awe of the Ross Business School’s waste...
David and I stood in a small room in front of a special machine used to visually sort coffee beans after they are harvested and dried. We listened carefully as the machine’s operator explained (through our translator) that this machine ensures only the highest quality...