Algal Scientific received funding from Evonik to start their first commercial production plant in Michigan. Algal Scientific uses a sustainable technology to use B-glucan for animal feed, which produces healthier livestock. Algal Scientific was co-founded by Erb...
Recent business school graduates launching a startup typically go after “traditional” investment from angel investors, VCs, business plan competitions, tech incubators, and, increasingly, social venture funds. But Rich Grousset and I learned that BizeeBox, our...
Erb students Emily Taylor ('14) and Jenny Cooper ('15) win Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability. Emily's team proposal, Enabling Energy Efficiency in Rental Properties focuses on finance energy efficiency projects for rental properties....
Erb post-doctoral research fellow, Laurie Kaye Nijaki contributed to the Sustainability as a Business Edge report with 'environmentally preferable practice' suggestions Read more
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon offers perspective on one rancher's efforts to find opportunity in the wake of the mountain pine beetle's destruction. New York Times (Business Day) Read more: Invasion of the Beetles, and a Rancher's Revenge (html)
Do consumer’s care about the environmental consequences of over-the-counter and prescription drugs? Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Environmental Health There is growing concern that pollution from pharmaceuticals used in human medicine and agriculture...
Developed under the supervision of Andrew Hoffman by graduate students Wesley Allred (Erb ’14), Heather Croteau, Fareed Hussain, Melisa Ongun and Sheena VanLeuven (Erb ’15) Jamba Juice CEO James White must determine how to respond to an online petition started by a...
Client Organization: University of Michigan Health System Client Website: University of Michigan Health System Secondary Client Organization: Patient Food & Nutrition Services Secondary Client Website: Patient Food & Nutrition Services SNRE Faculty Advisor:...
Andy Hoffman and Erb Institute MBA/MS program cited in Financial Times story on Business education: The sustainable path to profit: don't throw out the rubbish. Read more: The sustainable path to profit: don't throw out the rubbish (html)
Detroit: Serving and Learning in our Community / Report No. 124, 4 pages This report features the revitalization of Detroit’s lower east side, adaptive reuse of inner-city buildings, Ross School’s revitalization & business (R&B) initiative, new internships at...