Andrew Hoffman
@andyhoffman.bsky.social
Holcim (US) Professor, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan
The ‘Best’ Colleges Aren’t the Best Forever
Prestige isn’t permanent.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Will September 2025 be the point at which social media jumped the shark and began rapidly accelerating its transition from the place to be seen (through a flattering Instagram filter), to a gaudy backwater of the internet inhabited by those with nothing better to do?
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Have we passed peak social media?
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
www.ft.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Will September 2025 be the point at which social media jumped the shark and began rapidly accelerating its transition from the place to be seen (through a flattering Instagram filter), to a gaudy backwater of the internet inhabited by those with nothing better to do?
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✨Business can and should be a force for good. The Management as a Calling workshop invites faculty to reimagine business education with purpose and moral clarity.
🗓 12–14 Feb 2026
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⏰ Applications due 1 Dec.
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🗓 12–14 Feb 2026
📍 @notredame.bsky.social
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Join the Management as a Calling Workshop
The Management as a Calling Workshop will take place at the University of Notre Dame, from 12–14 February 2026.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
✨Business can and should be a force for good. The Management as a Calling workshop invites faculty to reimagine business education with purpose and moral clarity.
🗓 12–14 Feb 2026
📍 @notredame.bsky.social
⏰ Applications due 1 Dec.
🔎 Learn more from @andyhoffman.bsky.social
🗓 12–14 Feb 2026
📍 @notredame.bsky.social
⏰ Applications due 1 Dec.
🔎 Learn more from @andyhoffman.bsky.social
For business school professors interested in learning how to bring hashtag#character formation into the classroom - the Management as a Calling Workshop.
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Management as a Calling Workshop | Institute for Social Concerns
Management as a Calling: A Training Program February 12–14, 2026University of Notre Dame Business has the power to shape the world—let’s make sure we’re using it wisely. Too often, business education ...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
For business school professors interested in learning how to bring hashtag#character formation into the classroom - the Management as a Calling Workshop.
socialconcerns.nd.edu/management-a...
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When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world.
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready.
The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.
www.bloomberg.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world.
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
September 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
Out of the Woods: Business Education as Finding One’s Calling.
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Out of the Woods: Business Education as Finding One’s Calling | Institute for Social Concerns
It’s Friday early in the fall semester, and a group of students from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business board a bus for what Professor Andy Hoffman calls “a four-hour ride into the w...
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September 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Out of the Woods: Business Education as Finding One’s Calling.
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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
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August 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
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RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
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"Trusting the experts is not a feature of #science." WTF are you talking about, man?
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Trusting the experts is not a feature of #science." WTF are you talking about, man?
The University of Michigan’s former president Santa Ono has landed a new job in the United Kingdom. Ono has been appointed as Ellison Institute of Technology Global’s president, the institute announced in a release. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
Santa Ono lands new job at United Kingdom institute
The University of Michigan's former president resigned earlier this year.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The University of Michigan’s former president Santa Ono has landed a new job in the United Kingdom. Ono has been appointed as Ellison Institute of Technology Global’s president, the institute announced in a release. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
J.B. MacKinnon on Why He’s Suing the AI Giants. The Vancouver author leads class-action suits claiming firms used stolen, copyrighted Canadian works and covered it up. via @thetyee.ca
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J.B. MacKinnon on Why He’s Suing the AI Giants | The Tyee
The Vancouver author leads class-action suits claiming firms used stolen, copyrighted Canadian works and covered it up. A Tyee Q&A.
thetyee.ca
August 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
J.B. MacKinnon on Why He’s Suing the AI Giants. The Vancouver author leads class-action suits claiming firms used stolen, copyrighted Canadian works and covered it up. via @thetyee.ca
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The richest 1% of Americans now have 5x more wealth than the bottom 50%.
Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense.
Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists. buff.ly/SHI9BwJ
Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense.
Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists. buff.ly/SHI9BwJ
Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality
A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.
buff.ly
August 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The richest 1% of Americans now have 5x more wealth than the bottom 50%.
Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense.
Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists. buff.ly/SHI9BwJ
Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense.
Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists. buff.ly/SHI9BwJ
Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives.
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Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ in bet green transition will slow. Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades. via @financialtimes.com
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Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ in bet green transition will slow
Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades
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August 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ in bet green transition will slow. Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades. via @financialtimes.com
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Is the future insurable? Global climate change is shrinking the range of insurability. www.insuranceforgood.org/isthefuturei...
is the future insurable — Insurance for Good
No society has ever been able to insure everything, but under the right circumstances, insurance markets can thrive. Where that has happened, insurance has quietly evolved from a niche product to bein...
www.insuranceforgood.org
August 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Is the future insurable? Global climate change is shrinking the range of insurability. www.insuranceforgood.org/isthefuturei...
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#ICYMI: What does it take to lead in a world facing ecological crisis?
Professor @andyhoffman.bsky.social joined Motley Fool Money to explore what business school is missing – and how corporate leaders can step up to meet today's sustainability challenges.
🎧 Listen below.
Professor @andyhoffman.bsky.social joined Motley Fool Money to explore what business school is missing – and how corporate leaders can step up to meet today's sustainability challenges.
🎧 Listen below.
What Business School is Missing
Podcast Episode · Motley Fool Money · 07/27/2025 · 17m
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August 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#ICYMI: What does it take to lead in a world facing ecological crisis?
Professor @andyhoffman.bsky.social joined Motley Fool Money to explore what business school is missing – and how corporate leaders can step up to meet today's sustainability challenges.
🎧 Listen below.
Professor @andyhoffman.bsky.social joined Motley Fool Money to explore what business school is missing – and how corporate leaders can step up to meet today's sustainability challenges.
🎧 Listen below.
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What happens when you take sustainability out of the classroom?
You get Erb on the Road – an immersive, on-the-ground learning opportunity with policy advocates, nonprofit leaders, and corporate changemakers across Michigan.
Learn more about how we're connecting theory with action:
You get Erb on the Road – an immersive, on-the-ground learning opportunity with policy advocates, nonprofit leaders, and corporate changemakers across Michigan.
Learn more about how we're connecting theory with action:
Beyond the Classroom: Erb on the Road Brings Business Sustainability to Life - U-M Erb
How can GRI sustainability certifications help MBA student? One Erb Institute dual-degree student dives in to find out.
erb.umich.edu
August 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
What happens when you take sustainability out of the classroom?
You get Erb on the Road – an immersive, on-the-ground learning opportunity with policy advocates, nonprofit leaders, and corporate changemakers across Michigan.
Learn more about how we're connecting theory with action:
You get Erb on the Road – an immersive, on-the-ground learning opportunity with policy advocates, nonprofit leaders, and corporate changemakers across Michigan.
Learn more about how we're connecting theory with action:
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AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?
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AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’
If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?
www.wsj.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mcki...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mcki...
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom. lithub.com/what-happene...
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom
My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…
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August 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom. lithub.com/what-happene...
“Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College” nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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August 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College” nymag.com/intelligence...
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Buddhist teachings caution against creating AI avatars of deceased loved ones.
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
It is becoming easier to create AI avatars of the deceased − here is why Buddhism would caution against it
A scholar of Buddhism explains why creating a digital afterlife for loved ones may cause us to miss critical moments for genuine transformation and connection.
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July 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Buddhist teachings caution against creating AI avatars of deceased loved ones.
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
The practice may deepen our attachment to illusions and interfere with healthy grieving processes.
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The Motley Fool Money podcast interviewed @andyhoffman.bsky.social about his new book, Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The Motley Fool Money podcast interviewed @andyhoffman.bsky.social about his new book, Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market.
Watch the full interview:
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