Biography
I have been a professor at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, since 2007, studying and teaching strategy, management, regulation, and ethics, and am the current Editor-in-Chief of the journal Organization Science. I grew up surrounded by wheat fields on the border of Washington and Idaho, the grandson of dust bowl refugees. I studied economics, mathematics, and music at the University of Puget Sound before working as an industrial engineer at Boeing.
I completed a Ph.D at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley in 2005. I likely still hold the record for the most consecutive failed years (4) attempting to secure a tenure-track position in Strategy.
I am currently Chief Science Officer for Agency 150, an AI-native advisory platform, and Behavioral Strategy Advisor at Atlas Point. Previously I served as Chief Scientific Advisor of CivicScience and VP of Business Services for Wellspring
I currently live with my wife Vincenza and our son Carlo in St. Louis. My brother Forrest is a professor of music composition at the University of Kansas and the 2012 winner of the Barlow Prize. You can hear his work (and offer him commissions) here.