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2017 News

Positive Business Project honors for 4imprint, DISHER, imageOne, Menlo Innovations, and Swisse Wellness

Detroit: The most exciting, intriguing, and complicated city in America?

Instruments for Social Impact: Ross Positive Business Conference 2017

Amazon, Whole Foods execs give advice to University of Michigan students

A walkthrough of the 2017 Positive Business Conference

Professor Susan Ashford on Three Ways to Grow Your Leadership Potential

2017 Releases

Amazon, Whole Foods, and Microsoft Executives to Present at Michigan Ross’ Fourth Annual Positive Business Conference

2016 News

Logitech named winner of 2016 Positive Business Project, an annual competition presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations

Why Gratitude Matters: Lessons from the Ross Positive Business Conference

Ross conference examines social impact of business

U-M alum Schuyler to headline Ross Positive Business Conference

Vic Strecher on 6 Quick Steps for Finding Your Company’s Authentic Purpose in Huffington Post Blog

Jane Dutton and Monica Worline on 5 Surprising Reasons Compassion Is a Competitive Advantage in Huffington Post Blog

Jeana Wirtenberg on Five Keys to Unlock Human Potential and Solve Our Most Intractable Problems in Huffington Post Blog

2016 Releases

Michigan Ross Unveils Plans for 2016 Positive Business Conference

2015 News

U-M Ross School of Business showcases Positive Business in Action

Brian Flanagan on sowing the seeds of positive business in Huffington Post Blog

Chris Murchison of HopeLab on if it’s possible to lay people off nicely in The Atlantic

Chris Murchison of HopeLab on endings as positive opportunities in Huffington Post Blog

Jenn Lim of Delivering Happiness on making happy work on WEMU Radio (an NPR station)

2015 Releases

U-M Ross School of Business Announces Winners of Positive Business Project

Executives with Insights from BP, Zappos, and Menlo Innovations to Keynote Michigan Ross Positive Business Conference – May 14-15

Positive Practices to Take Center Stage at Michigan Ross – May 14-15

2014 News

Professor Shirli Kopelman on positive impact and the inaugural Positive Business Conference in Inc.

Professor Jane Dutton on the power of positive connections in DBusiness

Dean Alison Davis-Blake on sustainability in the Guardian

Professor Shirli Kopelman on using emotions in negotiations in Harvard Business Review

Chris White on embracing positive business in Fast Company

Professor Shirli Kopelman on negotiations and ethics in Bloomberg Businessweek

Chris White on positive business with Michigan Radio

Ross Professor Kai Petainen writes on his Forbes blog about Ford’s Chief Futurist’s take on positive business

Be A Force for Good: Dean Davis-Blake in Bloomberg Businessweek

Professor Ted London on business at the base of the pyramid with Phys.org

Vision – What it’s Not and Doing it Michigan-Style

Ann Arbor area business briefs: Tempur-Pedic and U-M Ross School of Business

2014 Releases

U-M Ross School of Business Announces Winner of First Positive Business Project

U-M Ross School of Business Opens Positive Business Project: Call for Submissions

U-M Ross School of Business Announces Speaker Lineup for Inaugural Positive Business Conference

U-M Ross Unveils Plans for Inaugural Positive Business Conference

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