Saving the World at Business School (Part 1) : A Conversation with Andy Hoffman.

Intro -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- The Conversation -- I. Building a Career -- II. Environmental Evolution -- III. Beyond Punditry -- IV. Fostering Debate -- V. American Exceptionalism? -- VI. Talking the Talk -- VII. Preaching to the Choir? -- VIII. Energy Renaissance -- IX. Reinventing Sustainability -- X. Surprising Revolutionaries -- XI. Setting Ideals -- XII. Impact -- XIII. The Passion Principle -- Continuing the Conversation.

This book is based on an in-depth conversation with 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. Further 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. This carefully-edited book includes a detailed introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and connections with other books in the Ideas Roadshow Conversations series.

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