Working at the Forefront of Climate-Change Action and Opportunity / Report No. 131, 4 pages Energized by overwhelming scientific evidence and agreement that human activity is causing serious changes in the Earth’s climate, the Erb Institute has joined environmental,...
Congratulations to the 2014 1st prize winning team: H&M's Global Supply Chain Management Sustainability: Factories and Fast Fashion Written by Marianna Kerppola, Ryan Moody, Likangjin Zheng, and Amaryllia Liu under the supervision of Professor Andrew Hoffman....
Professor Ravi Anupindi, Ross School, and Jim Frey, Resource Recycling Systems $10,000 - awarded summer 2012 The main focus of this research is to understand different approaches to the design of reverse supply chains for recycling packaging materials. Our context is...
Berry Kennedy ('14) reflects on her summer internship in the Walmart Sustainability Department. "As a summer MBA intern in the Walmart Sustainability Department, I had an amazing and rare opportunity. I was able to put into practice the sustainability rhetoric that’s...
The students of today are the business leaders of tomorrow. It’s important for them to understand how to solve the big, vexing problems that impact the quality of life for current and future generations. With that in mind, the University of Michigan’s Erb Institute...
IBM Funded Erb and World Environment Center Partnership to Fund 8 Erb-WEC Fellows The partnership strengthens the University of Michigan’s leadership role in the advancement of sustainability concepts and practices for future graduates. WEC will provide students...
Protecting Human Rights: The challenge for Business in the World's Riskiest Places Dr. Bama Athreya - Special Advisor to the International Labor Rights Forum in Washington D.C. Bama is also a member of the Erb Executive Advisory Board. Co-sponsors: Erb Institute,...
Project: An Evaluation of Ecolabels, Standards & Certifications in the Chemical Industry Client: a multi-national chemical company Faculty Advisor: Rick Bunch Student Group Members: Sarah Barjum, Kara Davidson, Deb Heed, Ning Wu Abstract: In recent years,...
By: Andrew Hoffman Description: How do you make money when you tell your customers ‘don’t buy our stuff unless you really need it?’” This was the question that Yvon Chouinard, founder of the clothing company Patagonia, asked himself as he considered developing a new...
This post appeared in GreenBiz on February 27, 2012 Editor's Note: This is the final article in a seven-week series by Nathan Springer that will chronicle in-depth the lessons from a course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business on how to become a...