Teaching
I see teaching and research as two sides of one coin. Strategy is the work of deciding when there is no clean answer, when the demands of markets, regulators, and the public pull in different directions. The questions I study are exactly the ones I put in front of students, and the classroom is where I find out whether those ideas survive contact with people who will soon have to act on them.
In the Classroom
In a graduate energy course, my session on biofuels fell the day after the first Iran-US ceasefire, which had turned biofuels from a strong bet into a much less certain one in roughly twelve hours. The assignment became real rather than hypothetical: you have five hundred million dollars committed to biofuels, the world changed this morning, and you must decide what to do with the nonmarket forces front and center. Students could not retreat to a formula. They had to reason, take a position, and defend it knowing the ground might move again. That is the capacity I want them to build, and it is the capacity strategy actually requires.
Courses
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Strategic Management · Instructor of RecordUniversity of Pittsburgh, core undergraduate curriculum · Spring 2022, 2023, 2024
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Energy in the 21st Century · Guest LecturerUSC Marshall School of Business, graduate elective · Spring 2025, 2026
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Intro to Organizational Behavior and Theory; Management in the Eyes of the Silver Screen · Teaching AssistantTel Aviv University, MBA program · 2013
Teaching Interests
I am prepared to teach strategic management at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive levels. Two extensions come straight out of my research: nonmarket strategy, and the business of energy and sustainability. I am also glad to contribute to organization theory, entrepreneurship, and innovation teaching as a department needs.