Biographical Information

Michael has grown up in the somewhat juxtaposed worlds of corporate strategy and ecology. As an undergraduate, he earned his B.A. magna cum laude in Biology from Harvard University, where he focused on understanding complex natural systems. Thereafter, he spent 5 years in management consulting, helping corporations and governments make strategic decisions--oftentimes related to environmental sustainability.

Research Interests

Michael is a dual student at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he is pursuing an MBA, and a first-year Ph.D student in the E-IPER program.

For his E-IPER dissertation, Michael hopes to leverage his business experience and MBA to better understand how companies make decisions related to environmental investments and natural resource management. He hopes to focus his research in the U.S., Scandinavia, and South Asia--comparing what has led companies in these three regions to pursue fundamentally different environmental strategies.

Michael is also interested in exploring what management and organizational theory can learn from ecology. While the modern private sector has had only several hundred years to evolve, ecological systems have experienced billions of years of experimentation.