David L Levy

• Professor Emeritus of Management, UMass Boston

Dr. David L. Levy is Professor Emeritus of Management in the College of Management at UMass-Boston. He has served in the past as department chair and associate dean. David holds a DBA from Harvard University, an MBA from Tel Aviv University, and an M.Sc. from Manchester University. An Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award Winner, David was a co-founder and is a core faculty member of the Sustainable Solutions Lab at UMass Boston. Prior to that, he founded and Directed the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness, which engages in research, education and outreach to promote a transition to a clean, sustainable, and prosperous economy. He taught courses in Organization Theory, International Business, Business and Society, Strategy, and Business and Climate Change.

David is frequently invited to lecture on the topic of business and climate change to policymakers, business and academic audiences. He has delivered presentations to a business forum in Berlin, a workshop of United Nations delegates in New York, and seminars at Cambridge, LSE, Manchester, Warwick, and MIT.

David has conducted extensive research on corporate strategic responses to climate change in the US and Europe, and the growth of the renewable energy business sector. David is also interested in the political economy of globalization and contested processes of governance around environmental and social issues.

• 2025–present Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• 1991–2025 Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• 2010–2015 Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness

• 2015 The Political Dynamics of Sustainable Coffee: Contested Value Regimes and the Transformation of Sustainability, Journal of Management Studies
• 2013 Contested Imaginaries and the Cultural Political Economy of Climate Change, Organization
• 2012 Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes, Organization Studies
• 2012 Corporate Perceptions of Climate Science: The Role of Corporate Environmental Scientists, Business and Society

• Academy of Management

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