Saving the World at Business School

ebook A Conversation with Andy Hoffman · Ideas Roadshow Conversations

By Howard Burton

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This book is based on an in-dept filmed 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. They discuss 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 carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Exceptional Times, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:

  • Reprise - 7 years on
  • Truth Decay - Facts under fire?
  • The Value of Wisdom - Beyond knowledge
  • Investigating Rewards - Intrinsic vs. extrinsic
  • Concrete Opportunities - And concrete scepticism
  • Management as a Calling - Focusing on the students
  • Opinionated Ignorance - Hardly what the Founding Fathers had in mind
  • Qualified Optimism - Hopeful signs
  • Spreading the Word - Creating new platforms through technology
  • Getting Personal - Slings, arrows and the learning experience
  • Shattered Leadership? - Desperately trying to pick up the pieces
  • About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series (100 books):

    Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates, but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. Howard Burton holds a PhD in physics and an MA in philosophy, and was the Founding Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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