2009 Faculty Pioneers

Dr. Lenox is the Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business at the Darden School of Business, as well as Associate Dean and Executive Director of the School's Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Additionally, he serves as the Faculty Director for the pan-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Dr. Lenox has had a long-standing interest in the interface between business strategy and public policy, particularly in connection with the natural environment. His work draws upon emerging scholarship on the institutional, or non-market, strategies of firms and explores the prospects for industry self-regulation—both the incentives firms have to self-regulate and the institutions created by firms and other stakeholders to facilitate self-regulation. Dr. Lenox's research has appeared in over 20 refereed academic publications and leading journals, and has been cited by such major media outlets as The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Economist .

Prior to joining Darden's faculty in 2008, Dr. Lenox was a professor at Duke University 's Fuqua School of Business, with a secondary appointment at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment. There, he founded and served as faculty director of Duke's Corporate Sustainability Initiative. In 2007, Dr. Lenox received Duke's first Fuqua Footprints Faculty Award for bringing sustainability and social issues into the classroom.