Michael Lenox
UVA Darden School of Business Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business
Mike Lenox is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business at the University of Virginia. He serves as a Special Advisor to the Provost leading the UVA pan-university entrepreneurship initiative. He also serves as a Senior Faculty Fellow for the UVA Miller Center and a Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy) for the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. At the Darden School, he serves as a Senior Advisor to the Dean and has served as the Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer, Associate Dean of Innovation Programs, and Academic Director of the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He found and served as the inaugural president of the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Mike has served as a tenured professor at Duke, an assistant professor at NYU, and as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and IMD.
Mike’s research has appeared in over thirty refereed academic publications and has been cited in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, the Financial Times and The Economist. He has been recognized as a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute, as the top strategy professor under 40 by the Strategic Management Society, and a top 40 business professor under 40 by Poets & Quants. Mike’s primary expertise is in the domain of technology strategy and policy. He is broadly interested in the role of innovation and entrepreneurship for economic growth and firm competitive success. In particular, he explores the business strategy and public policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity. Mike also has a long-standing interest in the interface between business strategy and public policy as it relates to the natural environment. Recent work includes the books "Can Business Save the Earth" (2018), "The Decarbonization Imperative" (2021), and “Strategy in the Digital Age” (2023), all from Stanford University Press.
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