Education
BA, Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York
PhD, Politics, Princeton University
Positions Held
At Haas since 1973
2009-present, Solomon P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics
1984-present, Professor, Haas School of Business
Visiting Positions
European University Institute
Hebrew University
INSEAD
London Business School
Stanford University
Bren School, U.C. Santa Barbara
External Service and Assignments
- 2009 - present, International Research Fellow, Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation
- Editor, California Management Review
- Editorial Board: Journal of Policy History, Journal of Risk Research, Business and Politics, Regulation and Governance, Journal of Public Affairs, Ethique
- Member, Scientific Committee, Italian Center for Corporate Responsibilty
- Member, Advisory Committee, International Network of Research on Organizations and Sustainable Development, France
Current Research and Interests
- A comparative study of consumer and environmental regulation in Europe and the United States, 1970-2005
- Corporate social responsiblity in the global economy
- Environment and trade
- Food safety regulation in Europe
- Biodiversity and biosafety in Europe, the United States, and California
Selected Papers and Publications
- "Corporate Responsibility, Government and Civil Society," with Jeremy Moon, in Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, edited by Crane, McWilliams, Matten, Moon, and Seigel. Oxford University Press, 2008.
- "The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct," in The Politics of Global Regulation, edited by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- "Private Global Business Regulation." Annual Review of Political Science 11 (2008).
- What's the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety, with Chris Ansel. MIT Press, 2006.
- The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility. Brookings Institution Press, 2005, 2006.
- "The Hare and the Tortoise Revisited: The New Politics of Consumer and Environmental Regulation in Europe." British Journal of Political Science 33, pt. 4 (October 2003). (Reprinted in Environmental Risk 2 (2004).)
- "Trade and Environment in the Global Economy: Contrasting European and American Perspectives," in Green Giants? Environmental Policy of the United States and the European Union, edited by Norman Vig and Michael Faure. MIT Press, 2004.
- The Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulation Policies, with Robert Kagan. University of California Press, 2004.
- "The New Politics of Risk Regulation in Europe and the US," in Trans-Atlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity, edited by Martin Levin and Martin Shapiro. Georgetown University Press, 2004.
- "Tracing the American Roots of the Political Consumerism Movement,” in Politics, Products and Markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present, edited by Michele Micheletti, Andreas Follesdale, and Dietlind Stolle. Transaction Press, 2003.
- "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Environmentalism: Exploring the Cultural Roots of Contemporary Green Politics," Zeitschrift fur Umweltpolitik and Umweltrecht, Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 3 (2002).
Teaching
- Ethics and Responsibility in Business, MBA/EWMBA 207
- Public and Private Global Business Regulation, Political Science 289
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Political Science, Queens College, City University of New York, 2005
- Grant, UC Center for German and European Studies, 1998-2000, 2002-2004
- Jean Monnet Chair, European University Institute, 1994
- BP Chair in Transatlantic Relations, European University Institute, 2000
- Novartis Professor of Management and the Environment, INSEAD, 2000-2001
- Shell Fellowship in Business and the Environment, INSEAD, 2002

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