Joel Gehman is Professor of Strategy, Entrepreneurship & Management and Alberta School of Business Chair in Free Enterprise at the University of Alberta. He studies the strategies and practices organizations pursue in response to grand challenges related to sustainability and values, and how such grand challenges impact technology innovation and institutional policies and vice versa. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Research Policy, and many others. Ongoing research examines these issues in the context of shale gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing patents, Certified B Corporations, multinational divestitures, climate change, energy risk perspectives, and organizational codes of conduct, among others. He previously spent 13 years in industry as an entrepreneur, manager and executive in the areas of management consulting, strategic marketing, and digital strategy. He graduated from Cornell University (B.S.) and the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D.).