He teaches in the areas of business & society, business & the natural environment, and social dimensions of sustainability. His early career included experience in government and in environmental consulting. At Hewlett-Packard, he ran a corporate product stewardship program and led training and business planning processes for the corporate manufacturing and corporate environmental health and safety groups. His primary research interests focus on corporate voluntary environmental initiatives and innovative policies to influence corporate environmental performance. He recently developed an undergraduate course MGMT 655: Business Innovation to Meet Emerging Needs—which focuses on business responses to global poverty and emerging markets. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Cruz and his M.B.A. from Stanford University.