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Business Skills for PhDs in Academia and Beyond: Thinking Strategically & Leveraging Capabilities
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Julis Romo Rabinowitz A17
Julis Romo Rabinowitz A17, Princeton, NJ, United States
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Instructor: Michael Lenox, Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration, Special Advisor for the Dean, UVA Darden School of Business
Critical to working as an independent researcher, or in a business, or any organization, is learning to think strategically. In this session, you will explore the meaning and importance of business strategy to an organization's competitive positioning and success. You'll learn about strategic analysis and SWOT, competitor, and environmental analysis tools. Central to the success of any organization is the ability to leverage capabilities to deliver value for all stakeholders. In this session, we'll also examine the tangible and intangible assets that form an organization's strength.
Cohort Description: Most people associate the term “business” with the private sector. However, business skills and models are widely applied in every sector: public, private and non-profit (which includes academia). You are acquiring many transferable skills in your Ph.D. program that can be applied in academic roles as well as within a variety of industries and job functions. Join the business skills learning cohort to better understand foundational concepts and language of business. This learning cohort includes experiential learning in the form of group capstone presentations under guidance of alum mentors.
Broad Topics include:
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Purpose, ethics, and responsibility: stakeholder theory
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Analysis of strategy and operations
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Data science in business
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Leadership and mentoring
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Negotiation
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Financial 360
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Business Communications
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Business of higher ed
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Michael Lenox
Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration; Special Advisor for the Dean
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Education: B.S., M.S., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Lenox, the Tayloe Murphy Professorship in Business Administration, teaches the core MBA strategy course as well as an MBA elective on Strategy in the Digital Age. He also serves as Special Advisor for the Dean, overseeing the research infrastructure in the Office of Research Services and leading other special projects. From 2016 to 2023, he served as the Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer for the school. From 2008 to 2016, he served as Associate Dean of Innovation Programs and Academic Director of Darden's Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He helped found and served as the inaugural president of the multiple-university Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Prior to joining Darden in 2008, Professor Lenox was a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, where he served as the area coordinator for Fuqua's Strategy Area and the faculty director and founder of Duke's Corporate Sustainability Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Technology Management and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 and the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Science in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Professor Lenox has served as an assistant professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Harvard University, Oxford University and IMD.
Professor Lenox's research has appeared in over thirty refereed academic publications and has been cited in a number of media outlets including The New York Times, the Financial Times and The Economist. In 2009, he was recognized as a Faculty Pioneer by the Aspen Institute and as the top strategy professor under 40 by the Strategic Management Society. In 2011, he was named one of the top 40 business professors under 40 by Poets & Quants. Professor Lenox's primary expertise is in the domain of technology strategy and policy. He is broadly interested in the role of innovation and entrepreneurship for economic growth and firm competitive success. In particular, he explores the business strategy and public policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity. Professor Lenox also has a long-standing interest in the interface between business strategy and public policy as it relates to the natural environment. Recent work includes the books "Can Business Save the Earth" (2018) and "The Decarbonization Imperative" (2021) both from Stanford University Press.