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Andy Hoffman is the Holcim (US)
Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a
position that holds joint appointments in the
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
and the School for Environment
and Sustainability.
Hoffman's academic work uses organizational behavior theories to understand the cultural and institutional aspects of environmental issues for organizations. The disciplinary focus of this research is devoted to theoretical questions surrounding institutional and cultural change; the empirical focus is directed towards the topic of sustainability, the natural environment, and climate change. He has published over one-hundred articles/book chapters and nineteen books, which have been translated into six languages. This work centers on several sub-themes.
- Institutional Theory, Change and Power: He uses a sociological perspective to understand the processes by which environmental issues both emerge and evolve as social, political and managerial issues, focusing on the expansion of institutional theory, the shifting nature of organizational fields, and the role of power and politics in these dynamics.
- Market and Business Implications of Sustainability: His work explores how corporations struggle to understand the implications of climate change for their market strategy.
- Resistance to Climate Science: Another strand of Hoffman’s work has sought to understanding why a social consensus has failed to emerge on climate change, focusing on the ideological preferences, personal experience, values, worldviews and social groups that influence individual decision making.
- The Social Implications of the Anthropocene: Where physical scientists debate the scope of human activity on the natural environment, Hoffman (with P. Devereaux Jennings) has explored how that shift manifests itself in the culture and institutions of society, what is referred to as “Anthropocene Society,” and involves a change in the intellectual, cultural and psychological conceptions of who we are as humans, what the “natural environment” is and how the two are related and inter-connected.
- Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Hoffman’s work has advocated for an examination of the changing context of academia and the emergent role of the engaged scholar.
- Reinvigorating the Training of Future Business Leaders: His work has also advocated for a rejuvenation of business education pedagogy and curriculum to properly address the systemic problems of climate change and inequality.
Hoffman has served on several committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including America’s Climate Choices: Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, the Sackler Colloquia on Science Communication, Climate Change Education: Preparing Future and Current Business Leaders and Contributions of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Towards Understanding Climate Change. His work has been covered in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Scientific American, Time, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, The Atlantic and National Public Radio.
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
- 2024, 45th Annual Walter M. Whitehouse Lecture, University of Michigan School of Medicine.
- 2024, UN PRME Teaching Award, United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education.
- 2023, Victor L. Bernard Teacing Leadership Award, Ross School of Business.
- 2023, Financial Times Business Case Teaching Award Winner.
- 2022, Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management. Winner: Managemenet as a Calling.
- 2022, George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management. Finalist: Managemenet as a Calling.
- 2022, Business & Society Best Paper Award,. Finalist: "Institutional-political scenarios for Anthropocene society," (with Dev Jennings).
- 2022 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award, RRBM Network. Winner: The Engaged Scholar.
- 2022 PROSE Book Award, Association of American Publishers. Winner: Management as a Calling.
- 2020 ONE Teaching Award, Organizations and Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management.
- Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula, 2019 Grand Prize Winner: Business in Democracy: Advocacy, Lobbying and the Public Interest.
- 2020 Public Engagement Faculty Mentor Fellowship, Center for Academic Innovation, University of Michigan.
- 2019 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management, (with Dev Jennings), Winner: Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era.
- 2019 Responsible Research in Business Management Award, RRBM Network. Winner: How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate.
- Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula, 2018 Honorable Mention: Sustainable Business in Iceland.
- Distinguished Faculty Award, 2018, Organizations & Natural
Environment Division, Academy of Management.
- Winner of the 2016 Faculty Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute.
- Honorable Mention for the 2016 Best Book Award, Organizations and Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management, How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate.
- 2016 American Chemical Society National Award Winner.
- Winner of the 2016 Best SO!apbox Essay Award, Strategic Organization, "The culture and discourse of climate skepticism."
- Winner of the 2014 Best Paper Award, Organization & Environment, "Talking past each other? Cultural framing of skeptical and convinced logics in the climate change debate."
- Honorable Mention for the 2014 Best Book Award, Organizations and Natural Environment, Academy of Management, Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability (with Rebecca Henn).
- Finalist for the 2014 Best Book Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management, Flourishing: A Frank Conversation on Sustainability (with John Ehrenfeld).
- 2013 Distinguished Service Award from the Organizations & the
Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management.
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Winner of the 2013
Maggie Award, Best Feature Article in a trade journal,
"Climate science as culture war," Western Publishing Association.
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Selected as one of the "World's 50 Best Business School Professors,"
Poets and Quants.
- "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).
- 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
- Advisory Council, Harvard Business Review (HBR)
- Advisory Board, Management and Business Review
- Associate Editor, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
- Advisory Board, Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St. Gallen
- Working Board, Responsible Research in Business & Management (RRBM)
- Advisory Board, PRME(i5), United Nations
- Advisory Board, The Conservation (US)
- Advisory Board, Corporate Eco-Forum
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