Professor Lenox is the Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business at Darden and Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Batten Institute. He also serves as the faculty director for the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Professor Lenox's research has appeared in over twenty refereed academic publications and has been cited in a number of media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Economist. Prior to joining Darden in 2008, Professor Lenox was a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business where he served as the area coordinator for Fuqua's Strategy Area and the faculty director and founder of Duke's Corporate Sustainability Initiative. At Duke, he coordinated and taught the core MBA strategy course and was runner-up for the Chrysler faculty teaching award on multiple occasions. He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Professor Lenox has served as an assistant professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and as a visiting professor at Harvard University and IMD.

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., M.S., University of Virginia

Professor Lenox's interests are 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 sourcing of extramural knowledge by firms and its impact on firm innovation strategy. Professor Lenox has also had a long-standing interest in the interface between business strategy and public policy as it relates to the natural environment. Recent work explores firm strategies and non-traditional public policies that have the potential to drive "green" innovation and entrepreneurship.