Andrew King

Andrew King is the Questrom Professor in Management, Professor Strategy and Innovation at Boston University. His research established whether and when firms can find ways to profitably reduce their impact on the environment. With students and colleagues, he helped found some of the most important research institutions in the sustainability field, culminating in the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. 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 B.A. from Brown University, an M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education

• PhD 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management – Cambridge, MA
• MS 1984 University of California – Berkeley, CA Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics and Controls
• BA 1981 Brown University – Providence, RI Mechanical Engineering

Academic Positions

• 2019 – Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston, MA
  Questrom Chair in Strategy and Innovation
• 2002 – 2019 Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College – Hanover, NH
  Professor of Business Administration
• 2007 – 2009 Harvard Business School – Boston, MA Marvin Bower Fellow (2007-08)
  Visiting Associate Professor (2008-09)
• Fall 1999 University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration
• Fall 1997 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA
  Visiting Assistant Professor of Management
• 1993 – 2002 New York University, Stern School of Business – New York, NY
  Assistant Professor of Management and Operations Management

Selected Publications

• King, A., Berchicci, L. (In Press). "Corporate Sustainability: A Model Uncertainty Analysis", Journal of Financial Reporting, 7 (2)
• Berchicci, L., King, A. (2022). "Material Sustainability and Stock Return: Faith is Not Enough", Journal of Financial Reporting, 7 (2), 41-42
• King, A., Pucker, K. (2022). "ESG and Alpha: Sales or Substance?", Institutional Investor
• Berchicci, L., King, A. (2022). "Building knowledge by mapping model uncertainty in six studies of social and financial performance", Strategic Management Journal, 43 (7), 1319-1346
• King, A., Pucker, K. (2021). "Heroic Accounting: New proposals for monetizing corporate planetary impacts are alluring, impossible, and perilous.", Stanford Social Innovation, Fall
• King, A., Goldfarb, B., Simcoe, T. (2021). "Learning from Testimony on Quantitative Research in Management", Academy of Management Review, 46 (3), 465-488
• King, A., Pucker, K. (2020). "The Dangerous Allure of Win-Win Strategies", Stanford Social Innovation Review (Winter, 2021), 35-39
• Berchicci, L., King, A. (2020). "Evidence on Social and Financial Performance: Mapping the Empirical Garden of Forking Paths", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1), 17546-17546
• Pillai, S., Gambardella, A., Goldfarb, B., King, A. (2020). "Abduction and the Problem of Null", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020 (1), 15012-15012
• Bergquist, A., Cole, S., Ehrenfeld, J., King, A., Schendler, A. (2019). "Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability: Past Roads and Future Prospects", Business History Review, 93 (1), 127-148
• Lyon, T., Delmas, M., Maxwell, J., Bansal, P., Chiroleu-Assouline, M., Crifo, P., Durand, R., Gond, J., King, A., Lenox, M., Toffel, M., Vogel, D., Wijen, F. (2018). "CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics", California Management Review, 60 (4), 5-24
• Favaron, S., Di Stefano, G., King, A. (2018). "Power to the Crowd: Understanding the Role of Individual Contributors in Innovation Initiatives", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018 (1), 17131-17131
• Goldfarb, B., King, A., Simcoe, T. (2018). "Heritability of Trust and Distrust Remains Unknown.", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (10), E2149-E2150
• Berchicci, L., Dowell, G., King, A. (2017). "Environmental Performance and the Market for Corporate Assets", Strategic Management Journal, 38 (12), 2444-2464
• Goldfarb, B., King, A. (2016). "Scientific apophenia in strategic management research: Significance tests & mistaken inference", Strategic Management Journal, 37 (1), 167-176
• Di Stefano, G., King, A., Verona, G. (2015). "Sanctioning in the Wild: Rational Calculus and Retributive Instincts in Gourmet Cuisine", Academy of Management Journal, 58 (3), 906-931
• Di Stefano, G., King, A., Verona, G. (2014). "Kitchen confidential? Norms for the use of transferred knowledge in gourmet cuisine", Strategic Management Journal, 35 (11), 1645-1670
• Dutt, N., King, A. (2014). "The Judgment of Garbage: End-of-Pipe Treatment and Waste Reduction", Management Science, 60 (7), 1812-1828
• Di Stefano, G., King, A., Verona, G. (2014). "Hell’s Kitchen: Sanctioning Violations of Norms of Knowledge Use in Gourmet Cuisine", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014 (1), 15118-15118
• Berchicci, L., King, A. (2014). "Do Managers Systematically Miss Opportunities for Waste Reduction? A Goal Setting Approach", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014 (1), 15466-15466
• Adner, R., Eggers, J., King, A., Sosa, M., Tucci, C. (2014). "A Multilevel Perspective on Technological Discontinuities:What Do We Know &Where Do We Go From Here?", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2014 (1), 10274-10274
• Berchicci, L., Dowell, G., King, A. (2012). "Environmental capabilities and corporate strategy: exploring acquisitions among US manufacturing firms", Strategic Management Journal, 33 (9), 1053-1071
• Di Stefano, G., King, A., Verona, G. (2012). "Second-party sanctioning of norm violations: The case of know-how trading in gourmet cuisine", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2012 (1), 11307-11307
• Berchicci, L., King, A., Tucci, C. (2011). "Does the apple always fall close to the tree? The geographical proximity choice of spin-outs", Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 5 (2), 120-136
• KING, A., LENOX, M. (2009). "LEAN AND GREEN? AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEAN PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE", Production and Operations Management, 10 (3), 244-256
• Barnett, M., King, A. (2008). "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: A Longitudinal Analysis of an Industry Self-Regulatory Institution", Academy of Management Journal, 51 (6), 1150-1170
• BERCHICCI, L., KING, A., TUCCI, C. (2008). "NO PLACE LIKE HOME? SPIN-OFFS' STRATEGY AND LOCATION CHOICE.", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2008 (1), 1-6
• Pe'er, A., Vertinsky, I., King, A. (2008). "Who enters, where and why? The influence of capabilities and initial resource endowments on the location choices of de novo enterprises", Strategic Organization, 6 (2), 119-149
• Terlaak, A., King, A. (2007). "Follow the small? Information-revealing adoption bandwagons when observers expect larger firms to benefit more from adoption", Strategic Management Journal, 28 (12), 1167-1185
• Berchicci, L., King, A. (2007). "11 Postcards from the Edge", Academy of Management Annals, 1 (1), 513-547
• Berchicci, L., King, A. (2007). "11 Postcards from the Edge", The Academy of Management Annals, 1 (1), 513-547
• King, A. (2007). "Cooperation between corporations and environmental groups: A transaction cost perspective", Academy of Management Review, 32 (3), 889-900
• Terlaak, A., King, A. (2006). "The effect of certification with the ISO 9000 Quality Management Standard: A signaling approach", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 60 (4), 579-602
• BARNETT, M., KING, A. (2006). "GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS: AN INSTITUTIONAL EXPLANATION OF INDUSTRY SELF-REGULATION.", Academy of Management Proceedings, 2006 (1), M1-M6
• King, A., Lenox, M., Terlaak, A. (2005). "The Strategic Use of Decentralized Institutions: Exploring Certification With the ISO 14001 Management Standard", Academy of Management Journal, 48 (6), 1091-1106
• Lenox, M., King, A. (2004). "Prospects for developing absorptive capacity through internal information provision", Strategic Management Journal, 25 (4), 331-345
• King, A., Lenox, M. (2001). "Does It Really Pay to Be Green? An Empirical Study of Firm Environmental and Financial Performance: An Empirical Study of Firm Environmental and Financial Performance", Journal of Industrial Ecology, 5 (1), 105-116

Selected Research Presentations

• King, A. The Problem of Learning from Testimony: Epistemic Mapping as a Solution, Strategic Management Society, zoom, 2021
• King, A. Corporate Sustainability: A Model Uncertainty Analysis of Materiality, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability, zoom, 2021
• King, a. Corporate Sustainability: A Model Uncertainty Analysis of Materiality, Strategy and the Business Environment, Zoom, 2021
• King, A. Corporate Sustainability, UN Principles for Responsible Investing, zoom, 2021

Awards And Honors

• 2022, Teaching Award
• 2021, Best Paper at the ARCS annual conference
• 2021, Broderick Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2020, Strategic Management Society - Research Methods Prize
• 2020, Core Course Teaching Award