Faculty and Research

Michael Toffel is an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on environmental, safety, and quality programs initiated by industry associations, government regulators, and non-governmental organizations. His recent work seeks to identify which these programs legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior environmental, safety, or quality performance--and why--and whether these programs lead to improvements in these areas.

Tim Simcoe is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He is an expert on Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs) voluntary information disclosure. He investigates how standards are formed and how they influence innovation. He explores explores the tension between collaboration and competition in the non-market standard setting process—with particular emphasis on the role of intellectual property rights.

Tim received his PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

Michael Lenox is Associate Professor of Business at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his B.S. and M.Sc. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Professor Lenox explores the sourcing of extramural knowledge and its impact on firm innovation. He also explores the prospects for industry self-regulation -- both the incentives firms have to self-regulate and the private institutions created by firms to facilitate self-regulation.

Andrew A. King is an Associate Professor of Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Dr. King holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,the University of California at Berkeley; and Brown University.

Dr. King investigates how firms and industries collaborate to improve industry conditions. The New York Times credited Dr. King's research with changing EPA policy and with encouraging a reorganization of the American Chemistry Council's Responsible Care Program.