Michael Lenox is a University Professor and the Tayloe Murphy Professorship in Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He also holds an appointment as a Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy) at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and is a Senior Faculty Fellow for the UVA Miller Center where he is an Academic Director for the Program on Democracy and Capitalism. He helped 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 (Engineering Systems) from MIT and his Bachelor and Masters in Systems Engineering from UVA. He has served on the faculty at Duke and NYU, and as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford.
Professor Lenox’s research explores the business strategy and public policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity and technology transitions such as those being driven by digital transformation and decarbonization. Professor Lenox'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 published five books including, “Strategy in the Digital Age” (2023), "The Decarbonization Imperative" (2021), and "Can Business Save the Earth" (2018) all from Stanford University Press.
