Michael Toffel joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2006 and currently teaches the first year course in Technology and Operations Management. His research focuses on companies' environmental, safety, and quality programs. Specifically, his work examines whether these programs—initiated by industry associations, government regulators, and non-governmental organizations—legitimately distinguish adopters as having superior environmental, safety, or quality performance, 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 the Samuel L. Slover Professor of Business Associate and Dean & Executive Director of the Batten Institute at the Darden School of Business.

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 College.

Dr. King holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,the University of California at Berkeley; and Brown University.

Dr. King is currently on leave from Tuck at the Harvard Business School.