Andrew J. Hoffman
Director
Holcim (U.S.) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
Professor Hoffman’s research lies in the areas of institutional change, organizational culture and corporate strategies as they relate to environmental and social issues. He has published over seventy articles and seven books on these topics. His books include: Climate Change, What’s Your Business Strategy?, Carbon Strategies: How Leading Corporations are Reducing their Climate Change Footprint, Getting Ahead of the Curve: Corporate Strategies that Address Climate , Organizations, Policy & the Natural Environment; From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism; Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Landscape and; Global Climate Change: A Senior-Level Dialogue. His book, From Heresy to Dogma, was awarded the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Professor Hoffman was awarded the 2003 Faculty Pioneer- Rising Star award from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, awarded jointly by the Sloan School of Management and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
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Thomas P. Lyon
Associate Director of Research
Dow Chemical Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce
Professor Lyon’s current research deals with the interplay between corporate strategy and public policy, including corporate environmentalism, electric utility investment practices, natural gas contracting, innovation in the health care sector, and the introduction of competition in regulated industries. His book Corporate Environmentalism and Public Policy was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2004. Professor Lyon serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and his research has been published in such journals as the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.
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Thomas N. Gladwin
Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
Professor Gladwin’s current research centers on establishing and promulgating a science of sustainable enterprise, a field that addresses relationships among ecosystems, social systems, economic systems and organizational systems. Tom is the author of over 130 articles, cases and chapters on international and environmental management and eight books including: Environment, Planning and the Multinational Corporation, Multinationals Under Fire: Lessons in the Management of Conflict, Environmental Aspects of the Activities of Transnational Corporations, Building the Sustainable Corporation: Creating Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Advantage, Stakeholder Negotiations: Exercises in Sustainable Development, and Business, Nature and Society: Towards Sustainable Enterprise (in process). Professor Gladwin was awarded the 2003 Faculty Pioneer- Lifetime Achievement award from the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute.
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Dr. Johnson’s research employs systems approaches to assess the environmental impacts of variable renewable energy grid integration and large scale energy storage. Other areas of investigation include developing methods for more informed generation resource planning, forecasting material use impacts stemming from changing generation portfolios, and the development of anthropogenic material cycles. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Jeremiah worked as an energy consultant advising electric utilities on renewable and environmental strategy.
In recent research, Dr. Johnson has investigated the rise of sustainability initiatives at contemporary American botanical gardens and how they are changing the mission and goals of these environmental organizations. She is currently working on a book on the first botanical garden in the United States.
In her work, Sara develops an organizational politics approach to corporate sustainability. Thus, she studies how individuals within organizations mobilize others, develop coalitions, and access key decision makers when they are trying to implement sustainability initiatives. Further, she studies individual and organizational responses to the ambiguity and uncertainty that surrounds sustainability, such as making sense of emergent issues, prioritizing and agenda setting, and balancing multiple goals. This requires a keen attention to multiple levels of analysis: how micro-level actions aggregate into macro-level outcomes and how pluralistic institutional pressures influence organizational reactions to sustainability issues. To address these multi-level questions, her dissertation and current research draws on multiple theoretical areas, including social movements, social influence, institutions, and networks. Empirically, she uses multiple methods – qualitative, quantitative and simulation. Sara completed her PhD at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Her dissertation, “Processes of Agenda Change in Organizations” received the 2011 Academy of Management, Organizations and the Natural Environment Division Best Dissertation Award. Sara worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company serving retail and financial services organizations and led a business transformation team in post-merger activities at The Auto Club Group, a AAA umbrella organization. She holds MSE degrees in Chemical and Environmental Engineering and a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Click Here for additional research information.
