Today’s global supply chain creates economic opportunity overseas and cost savings for U.S. businesses, but comes with limited visibility and control of the working conditions where goods are sourced and manufactured. At a recent gathering sponsored by the Erb...
Erb student, Marianna Kerppola was featured as a top innovative female student for her enterprise, BetterHope which curates products that create safe and sustainable jobs. Read the featured blog "15 Innovative Female Students to Watch in 2015 Read more about Marianna...
Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman wrote an article in Leadership Excellence on the theory of change for sustainability with steps for how it can be achieved. The outlined steps are as follows: first, understanding the current realities; second, a clear vision for a...
Erb's Managing Director, Terry Nelidov was featured in the month long Sustainable Brands Series in February 2015 called Academic Engagement: How Business & Business Schools Partner to Drive Sustainable Innovation. Don't miss the featured article on the Erb...
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, in Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing): 228-248 (with John Ehrenfeld) (2015) ABSTRACT: Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research....
Lauded by Sustainable Brands as a top sustainability book in 2014 Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability John R. Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman April, 2013 Stanford University Press, 144 pages Flourishing invites you into a conversation between a...
By Kelsea Ballantyne When I joined the U of M Presidents Committee for Labor Standards and Human Rights last year, I had no idea how much it would open my mind to the power universities have to transform global supply-chains. Helping to organize the Symposium on...
Set high on the sixth floor of Ross Business School, on August 18th a group of fifteen Erb alumni, External Advisory Board members, and staffers collected for the Ann Arbor Alumni Roadshow. Overlooking the sun-washed city below, the gathering fell on one of those days...
Former Erb Post-Doc Judith Walls and Harry Triandis published a paper in Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal on the universal cultural values of health, well-being, longevity and environmental preservation and discusses challenges with upholding these...
Remarks at the 2013 Erb Institute Holiday Gathering What is our theory of change? It is an important question, and one that I have been pondering over the past few months. We all have a theory of change. When we ask our partner to change dinner plans for the evening;...