Andrew Hoffman
American scholar (born 1961)
Andrew J. Hoffman
Hoffman in 2023
BornOctober 1961 (age 64)[citation needed]
Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationProfessor
Academic background
Education
Websiteandrewhoffman.net

Andrew John Hoffman (born 1961) is a scholar of environmental issues and sustainable business. He is the Holcim Professor in Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan.[1]

Career

After graduating, Hoffman worked as a carpenter on construction jobs in Nantucket, working his way up to project manager on new builds in Connecticut. His 2010 memoir "Builder's Apprentice" covers these years.[2][3]

Since 2004, he has been Holcim Professor in Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan,[4] with joint appointments at the Ross School of Business[5] and the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS).[6] He has also served as Faculty Director and Associate Director of the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise,[7] and as Education Director at the Graham Sustainability Institute.[8]

Prior to the University of Michigan, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and served on the faculty of the Boston University School of Management (now the Boston University Questrom School of Business).[9]

In October 2025, Hoffman was named the MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants magazine.[10]

He earned his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, his MS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT, and his PhD in both Management and Civil & Environmental Engineering from MIT.[11] For his PhD, he studied under John Ehrenfeld, Fred Moavenzadeh, David H. Marks, Willie Ocasio, William F. Pounds and Robert Thomas.[12]

Selected works

Books

Hoffman has published nineteen books. Some notable ones include:

  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (April 2025). Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market: Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-4246-1.[13]
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (March 2021). The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today's World. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-2925-7.[14] Winner of the 2022 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award.[15]
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (March 2021). Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-2877-9. Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management[16] and the 2022 Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Best Book Award.[17] Finalist for the 2022 Academy of Management George R. Terry Book Award.[18] Translated into Chinese.[19]
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (March 2015). How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9422-0.[20] Winner of the 2019 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award.[21] Translated into Czech.[22]
  • Ehrenfeld, John R.; Hoffman, Andrew J. (May 2013). Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-8415-3.[23]
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (April 2010). Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir. Huron River Press. ISBN 978-1-932399-24-0. Joint winner of the 2011 Connecticut Book Award, memoir category.[24]
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (November 2001). From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4503-1. Winner of the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).[25]

Papers

Hoffman has published over a hundred articles and book chapters.[26] Some notable ones include:

  • Hoffman, Andrew J.; Jennings, P.D. (2021). "Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society". Business & Society. 60 (1): 57–94. doi:10.1177/0007650318816468.
  • Elangovan, A.R.; Hoffman, Andrew J. (2019). "The Pursuit of Success in Academia: Plato's Ghost Asks 'What Then?'". Journal of Management Inquiry. 30 (1): 68–73. doi:10.1177/1056492619836729.
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (2018). "The Next Phase of Business Sustainability". Stanford Social Innovation Review. 16 (2): 34–39. doi:10.48558/1c0c-0n15.
  • Wooten, Melissa; Hoffman, Andrew J. (2017). "Organizational Fields: Past, Present and Future". In R. Greenwood; C. Oliver; T. Lawrence; R. Meyer (eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. pp. 55–75. doi:10.4135/9781526415066.
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (2012). "Climate Science as Culture War". Stanford Social Innovation Review. 10 (4): 30–37. doi:10.48558/yy4t-y622.
  • Hoffman, Andrew J.; Ocasio, William (2001). "Not All Events are Attended Equally: Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Industry Attention to External Events". Organization Science. 12 (4): 414–434. doi:10.1287/orsc.12.4.414.10639.
  • Hoffman, Andrew J. (1999). "Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the U.S. Chemical Industry". The Academy of Management Journal. 42 (4): 351–371. doi:10.5465/257008. hdl:2027.42/136182. ISSN 0001-4273. JSTOR 257008.

References

  1. ^ "Andy Hoffman". Holcim Foundation. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Choosing a Hammer Over Harvard". Fine Homebuilding. 2 April 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir - Book - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  4. ^ University of Michigan Board of Regents. Proceedings of the Board of Regents July 2004 - June 2005. University of Michigan. p. 56. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Andy Hoffman". Michigan Ross. University of Michigan. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Andy Hoffman". Michigan SEAS. University of Michigan. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Andrew Hoffman". Curiosity U. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  8. ^ "Andrew J. Hoffman". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  9. ^ "Andy Hoffman". Holcim Foundation. Retrieved 18 August 2025.
  10. ^ Ethier, Marc (21 October 2025). "'Let's blow up the curriculum': Michigan Ross' Andrew Hoffman Is Poets & Quants' 2025 MBA Professor of the Year". Poets & Quants.
  11. ^ "Andrew Hoffman". ORCID. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  12. ^ Hoffman, Andrew J. (1995). The environmental transformation of American industry : an institutional account of organizational evolution in the chemical and petroleum industries, (1960-1993). MIT Libraries (Thesis). hdl:1721.1/11744. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  13. ^ Hart, Stuart (Summer 2025). "Can Business Schools Reclaim Their Noble Purpose?". Stanford Social Innovation Review.
  14. ^ Martin, Sheila A. (15 December 2022). "Hoffman, A. J. (2021). The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today's World. Stanford University Press. 184 pp". Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. 26 (3): 219–223. ISSN 2164-8212.
  15. ^ "2022 Responsible Research in Management Award". www.rrbm.network. Retrieved 21 December 2025. Andrew J. Hoffman for "The Engaged Scholar"
  16. ^ "2022 Winners, Association of American Publishers". proseawards.com/winners/2022-award-winners. Retrieved 17 December 2025. Business, Finance and Management
  17. ^ "SIM Best Book Award Winners". sim.aom.org/new-item1/new-page3. Retrieved 17 December 2025. 2022 Winner, Andrew Hoffman, Management as a Calling.
  18. ^ "2022 George R. Terry Book Award". AOM. Retrieved 17 December 2025. Finalist, Andrew Hoffman, Management as a Calling.
  19. ^ 使命管理. Retrieved 17 December 2025. China Science and Technology Press.
  20. ^ Peace, Adrian (17 December 2015). "Andrew J. Hoffman: How Culture Shapes Climate Change". Human Ecology. 43: 505–506. doi:10.1007/s10745-015-9752-2.
  21. ^ "2019 Responsible Research in Management Award". rrbm.network. Retrieved 21 December 2025. Andrew J. Hoffman for "How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate"
  22. ^ >"Jak Kultura Utváří Diskusi o Klimatické Změně". Retrieved 24 December 2025. Muni Press.
  23. ^ Roome, Nigel (24 January 2015). "Review of Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability, by John R. Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman. 168 pp". Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19 (1): 169–171. doi:10.1111/jiec.12222.
  24. ^ "2002-2011 Connecticut Book Award Winners". ctcenterforthebook.org. Retrieved 23 December 2024. Andrew J. Hoffman for "Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir"
  25. ^ Wikipedia contributors. (2025, June 6). Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize) In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:42, December 19, 2025
  26. ^ Andrew Hoffman publications indexed by Google Scholar
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