Andy Hoffman

Saving the World at Business School (Part 1) is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability. This conversation starts with inspiring insights into how Andy Hoffman became interested in environmental issues when he declined acceptances from graduate school at Harvard and Berkeley and instead worked as a carpenter for several years in Nantucket. 

Topics include the notions of ‘environmental sustainability’ and ‘big business’ which sometimes seem as incompatible as oil and water and ways to make a synthesis a reality by seriously reconsidering the way we currently conduct public policy and even some deep aspects of our current societal values.

Andy Hoffman is featured in two separate conversations which have been released in a carefully-edited video format and as two enhanced books, while Andy Hoffman is also featured in 4 short documentaries – all details are below.



This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:


Saving the World At Business School (Part 2) is an extensive follow-up conversation discussing Andy Hoffman’s research and scholarly insights which are extremely relevant to today’s society. Andy Hoffman is passionately committed to encouraging fellow academics to play a much stronger role in communicating knowledge, facts and information to the regular public and politicians which has culminated into his two new books The Engaged Scholar and Management As A Calling.


This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:



Both books are also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow CollectionConversations About The Environment, which is available in paperback, hardcover and electronic format.


Andy Hoffman is featured in 4 short documentaries together with several other renowned researchers, including Edie Widder, John Dunn, Emilie Hafner-Brton, David Hollinger and Martin Jay.