Name Michael Lenox | ||
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Born February 23, 1971
Morrisville, Pennsylvania, USA ( 1971-02-23 ) Fields American Strategist and Professor of Business Administration Alma mater Darden School of the University of Virginia | ||
Darden Faculty Profile: Mike Lenox
Michael J. Lenox, (born February 23, 1971) is an American strategist and professor of business administration at the Darden School of the University of Virginia, particularly known for his work on business strategy, technology strategy, corporate sustainability and industry self-regulation. Lenox was also a visiting professor at Oxford University, Harvard University and Stanford University. He is a contributor at Forbes magazine.
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Biography
Born in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, son to James P. Lenox and Virginia Lynn Lenox. Michael received a B.S. in systems engineering from University of Virginia in 1993, a M.S. in Systems Engineering from University of Virginia in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999.
He taught previously at New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business and at Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and is Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business of Strategy and Sustainability at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
Work
Lenox is particularly known for his work in the business strategy and public policy intersection. Beginning his career at the Stern School of Business, he has written and consulted on topics surrounding business strategy for over 15 years. He is currently Associate Dean and Executive Director of the School's Batten Institute, a foundation established to develop thought leadership in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Michael also serves as president of the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), a professional society of scholars from all disciplines studying the interface between business and sustainability. He teaches and serves as the course head for the first year "Strategy" core course of the MBA Program at Darden.
Business strategy
Professor Lenox has been teaching and studying strategy for over 15 years. Besides teaching both MBAs and executive MBAs from Fuqua School of Business and from Darden School of Business, Lenox is one of the faculty pioneers to teach business strategy in a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course). His most popular course, Foundations of Business Strategy, explores the theory and frameworks that provide the foundations of a successful business strategy. He gave this course in different platforms such as Udemy and Coursera. As of May 2014, he had more than 200.000 students in his online courses.
His most recent work in business strategy is available in his book The Strategist's Toolkit, co-authored with his colleague Jared D. Harris. The book's main goal is to provide a conceptual framework and tools to analyze the strategy of an organization, with the intent to teach the strategist's work.