Andrew Hoffman

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.

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.

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

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).

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

Awards

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

Selected works Books Hoffman has published nineteen books. Some notable ones include:

Winner of the 2022 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award. Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award in Business, Finance & Management and the 2022 Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Best Book Award. Finalist for the 2022 Academy of Management George R. Terry Book Award. Translated into Chinese. Winner of the 2019 Responsible Research in Business Management Book Award. Translated into Czech.

Joint winner of the 2011 Connecticut Book Award, memoir category. Winner of the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).

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