Andrew A. King
PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Professor Andrew A. King
is a leading authority on environmental
performance and innovation.
His research established whether and when firms can find
ways to profitably reduce their impact on the
environment. His empirical tests of the efficacy of
industry self-regulation
helped change both private and public policy. His
research now explores open source innovation and knowledge
sharing.
Andy was an early advocate of a scholarship on what is now
called "sustainability", and his findings and methods have influenced
scholars in many disciplines. With students and
colleagues, he helped found some of the most important
research institutions in the field, culminating in the Alliance for
Research
on Corporate Sustainability.
Andy is also an important mentor
to young scholars.
His PhD students are now
distinguished scholars at leading institutions. With
Mike Lenox and Mike Toffel, Andy created MapEcos.org.
The site maps information on the sources of industrial
pollution.
Andy is also an innovator in business education. He is the author
of several teaching cases and modules. With Bob
Burnham (Tuck), he has created games to illustrate
competitive game theory, cooperative game theory, technology
diffusion, market signalling, and ecosystem management. 
Most
recently, Andy worked with John Sterman
at MIT and Forio Business
Solutions to design the newest version of the
Fishbanks simulation. This online simulation
allows participants to operate companies in an open access
fishery.
Andy has been a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, an Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer, and an Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award winner His thesis won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Zannetos Prize. Andy holds a BA from Brown University, an MS from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
