Andrew Hoffman

This article is about the environmental business scholar. For the football player, see Andrew Hoffman (American football). For the baseball player, see Andrew Hoffmann.

Andrew J. Hoffman
Hoffman in 2023
Born	October 1961 (age 64)[ citation needed ] Easton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Education	University of Massachusetts Amherst (B.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., Ph.D.)
Website	andrewhoffman.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]

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. ^[10] For his PhD, he studied under John Ehrenfeld, Fred Moavenzadeh, David H. Marks, Willie Ocasio, William F. Pounds and Robert Thomas. ^[11]

Awards

In October 2025, Hoffman was named the MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants magazine. ^[12] In 2024, he received the Faculty Teaching Award from the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management (UN PRME). ^[13] In 2023, he received the Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award from the Ross School of Business. ^[14] The Aspen Institute awarded him the Ideas Worth Teaching Award in 2017, ^[15] the Faculty Pioneer Award in 2016, ^[16] and the Rising Star Award in 2003. ^[17] The Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management awarded him the 2020 Teaching Award and the 2013 Distinguished Service Award. ^[18] He was awarded the Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business award in both 2020 ^[19] and 2009. ^[20]

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. ^[21]
• 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. ^[22] Winner of the 2022 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award. ^[23]
• 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 ^[24] and the 2022 Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Best Book Award. ^[25] Finalist for the 2022 Academy of Management George R. Terry Book Award. ^[26] Translated into Chinese. ^[27]
• Hoffman, Andrew J. (March 2015). How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate. Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-0-8047-9422-0. ^[28] Winner of the 2019 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award. ^[29] Translated into Czech. ^[30]
• Ehrenfeld, John R.; Hoffman, Andrew J. (May 2013). Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability. Stanford University Press. ISBN   978-0-8047-8415-3. ^[31]
• 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. ^[32]
• 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). ^[33]

Papers

Hoffman has published over a hundred articles and book chapters. ^[34] 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. "Andrew Hoffman". ORCID. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. "2024 PRME Faculty Teaching Award". UN PRME. Retrieved 31 January 2026. 2024 PRME Faculty Teaching Award.
14. "The Ross Report". Michigan Ross School of Business. Retrieved 31 January 2026. Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award.
15. "Ideas Worth Teaching Awards". Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. Retrieved 16 January 2026. Award Recipients 2017
16. "Faculty Pioneer Awards". Aspen Institute Business & Society Program. Retrieved 16 January 2026. Award Recipients 2016
17. Daily Free Press Admin. (14 October 2003). "SMG prof. given Rising Star Award". Daily Free Press.
18. "ONE Awards". Organizations and the Natural Environment. Retrieved 31 January 2026. Spreadsheet of all past ONE award winners.
19. "2019 Page Prize winners announced". Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
20. "Page Prize Database". Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Retrieved 17 December 2025.
21. Hart, Stuart (Summer 2025). "Can Business Schools Reclaim Their Noble Purpose?". Stanford Social Innovation Review.
22. 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.
23. "2022 Responsible Research in Management Award". www.rrbm.network. Retrieved 21 December 2025. Andrew J. Hoffman for "The Engaged Scholar"
24. "2022 Winners, Association of American Publishers". proseawards.com/winners/2022-award-winners. Retrieved 17 December 2025. Business, Finance and Management
25. "SIM Best Book Award Winners". sim.aom.org/new-item1/new-page3. Retrieved 17 December 2025. 2022 Winner, Andrew Hoffman, Management as a Calling.
26. "2022 George R. Terry Book Award". AOM. Retrieved 17 December 2025. Finalist, Andrew Hoffman, Management as a Calling.
27. 使命管理 . Retrieved 17 December 2025. China Science and Technology Press.
28. 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.
29. "2019 Responsible Research in Management Award". rrbm.network. Retrieved 21 December 2025. Andrew J. Hoffman for "How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate"
30. > "Jak Kultura Utváří Diskusi o Klimatické Změně" . Retrieved 24 December 2025. Muni Press.
31. 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.
32. "2002-2011 Connecticut Book Award Winners". ctcenterforthebook.org. Retrieved 23 December 2024. Andrew J. Hoffman for "Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir"
33. Wikipedia contributors. (2025, June 6). Rachel Carson Prize (academic book prize) In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:42, December 19, 2025
34. Andrew Hoffman publications indexed by Google Scholar

External links

• Official website
• Harvard Business School bio
• Social Science Research Network page
• Impactstory page
• Web of Science page
• Scopus page