Michael Lenox

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Michael Lenox serves as a Special Advisor to the Provost for UVA Innovates, a pan-university entrepreneurship initiative, for which he also holds the Donna & Richard Tadler University Chair of Entrepreneurship. His primary appointment is University Professor and Tayloe Murphy Professor in Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business. He also holds an appointment as a Professor of Public Policy (by courtesy) at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and as a Senior Faculty Fellow for the UVA Miller Center where he is an Academic Director for the Program on Democracy and Capitalism.  

From 2016 to 2023, Professor Lenox served as the Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer for the Darden School. He continues to serve as a Special Advisor to the Dean leading special projects. From 2008 to 2016, he served as Associate Dean of Innovation Programs and Academic Director of Darden's Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He helped found and served as the inaugural president of the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability.  

 Prior to joining UVA in 2008, Professor Lenox was a tenured professor at Duke. He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from MIT and the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Science in Systems Engineering from UVA. Professor Lenox has served as an assistant professor at NYU and as a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford. 

Professor Lenox's primary expertise is in the domain of technology strategy and policy.  He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles 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.  He has been recognized as a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute, a top strategy professor under 40 by the Strategic Management Society, and a top 40 business professors under 40 by Poets & Quants.