Biography & CV

Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment.  Within this role, Andy also serves as Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise. Professor Hoffman's research uses a sociological perspective to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations.  In particular, he focuses on the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues. He has written extensively about: the evolving nature of field level pressures related to environmental issues; the corporate responses that have emerged as a result of those pressures, particularly around the issue of climate change; the interconnected networks among non-governmental organizations and corporations and how those networks influence change processes within cultural and institutional systems; the social and psychological barriers to these change processes; and the underlying cultural values that are engaged when these barriers are overcome. He has published over ninety articles as well as nine books, which have been translated into five languages.  Among his list of honors, he has been awarded the Connecticut Book Award (2011), the Aldo Leopold Fellowship (2011), the Aspen Environmental Fellowship (2011 and 2009), the Manos Page Prize (2009), the Faculty Pioneer Award (2003), the Rachel Carson Book Prize (2001) and the Klegerman Award (1995).  His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. Prior to academics, Andy worked for the US Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1), Metcalf & Eddy Environmental Consultants, T&T Construction & Design and the Amoco Corporation. Andy serves on advisory boards of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, TRIRIGA Software Solutions, Earth Portal, Center for Environmental Innovation, and Canopy Partnership, as well as the editorial board of Organization & Environment.

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Degrees

• Ph.D., Management and Civil & Environmental Engineering (joint degree)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995)
• S.M., Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1991)
• B.S., Chemical Engineering
  University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1983)

Honors & Awards

• "Breaking the Frame" Paper Award winner from the Journal of Management Inquiry, "The BP Oil Spill as a cultural anomaly? Institutional context, conflict, and change," (with P. Devereaux Jennings) (March 2012).
• Connecticut Book Prize awarded for Builder's Apprentice as best memoir/biography of the year (December 2011).
• Selected as a 2011 Aspen Environment Forum Scholar, Aspen Institute (March 2011).
• 1st prize in the 2011 Oikos International Case competition for Coke in the Cross Hairs, Case # 1-429-098 (with S. Howie and G. Augustine, Ann Arbor, MI: Erb Institute, University of Michigan) (March 2011).
• 3rd prize in the 2011 Oikos International Case competition for The Clorox Company Goes Green, Case # 1-428-989 (with C. Cammarata, J. Gough, B. Moss, A. Nowygrod, N. Springer, and A. Jongejan, Ann Arbor, MI: Erb Institute, University of Michigan) (March 2011).
• Selected as a 2011 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, Stanford University (March 2011) (Press Release).
• Grand Prize winner of the 2009 Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for the course: Green Construction & Design (March 2010).
• Selected as a 2009 Aspen Environment Forum Scholar (March 2009).
• 3rd prize in the 2008 Oikos International Case Competition for Livinghomes, case study # 07-01 (with Rebecca Henn, Ann Arbor, MI: Erb Institute, University of Michigan) (June 2008).
• Faculty Pioneer-Rising Star Award, World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute (October 2003).
• Best Paper of the Year finalist for Academy of Management Review, "Barriers to resolution in ideologically based negotiations: The role of values and institutions," (with Kim Wade-Benzoni, Leigh Thompson, Don Moore, James Gillespie & Max Bazerman) (August 2003).
• Broderick Prize for Service to the Graduate Programs, Boston University School of Management (May 2003).
• Rachel Carson Prize awarded for From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism. The award is given for "work of social or political relevance" by the Society for Social Studies of Science (November 2001).
• Broderick Prize for Excellence in Research, Boston University School of Management (May 1998).
• Klegerman Award for Environmental Excellence, MIT (June 1995).

Advisory Boards and Councils

• Academic Advisory Committee, Black Rock/NACD Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment Research Awards
• Marketing Advisory Board, ecoAmerica
• Academic Advisory Board, Stanford Social Innovation Review
• Advisory Board, NextEra Renewable Energy Trust
• Council Member, SustainAbility Ltd
• Board Member, Michigan League of Conservation Voters
• International Advisory Board, The Encyclopedia of Earth 
• Board Member, Center for Environmental Innovation
• Principal Consultant, Canopy
• Editorial Review Board, Organization & Environment