MBA/MS, Class of 2011 Cynthia is a firm believer in the potential for business to alleviate poverty. Her career has focused on incubating mission-based businesses designed to alleviate poverty in the developing world She has been actively involved in the launch of...
MBA/MS, Class of 2016 Will is currently a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group. Will is interested in helping businesses adapt to and capitalize on changing environmental conditions through a greater understanding of sustainability challenges. Will has...
VERGE is a yearly conference offered by GreenBiz (originating in 2011) and has been gaining considerable momentum. In fact, it has outgrown its current location and will be moving to a bigger Silicon Valley location for next year’s event. This year’s conference...
The promise of asymmetric interventions for addressing risks to environmental systems. Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Environment Systems & Decisions Recent studies suggest that people the world over are becoming increasingly concerned about the...
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,...
I had the opportunity to spend three months in Brazil in the summer of 2015 as part of an Erb internship with Imaflora, a Brazilian organization that works with agricultural and forestry certification. Working with students from the University of Michigan (SNRE),...
The role of "culture" in the climate change debate isn't all it's cracked up to be. Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Nature Climate Change There's an emerging body of research suggesting that how much people know about climate change is unrelated to how...
Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman spoke on Marketplace NPR about the recent water restrictions in California and how markets could react to water saving toilets and faucets. Listen to and read the article online
Sustainability Cases Attract Global Audience Students at U-M and other top universities, including Northwestern University, University of Virginia and University of California, Berkeley, are benefiting from a substantial and growing catalog of Erb branded case studies...
What Is Water Worth?: Nestlé Walks a Fine Line (pdf abstract available) Purchase the full report on (Case study #1-429-415) - published 02/2015, 12 pages By: Andrew Hoffman Description: Paul Bulcke, CEO of Nestlé S.A., is confronted with an Internet firestorm after a...