Richard Schmalensee
Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
areas of expertise: energy economics, markets, policy
Richard Schmalensee is the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management and director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. He served as the John C. Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998-2007. He was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989-1991 and Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan from 1996-1998.
Schmalensee is the author or co-author of 11 books and more than 120 published articles, and he is co-editor of volumes I and II of the Handbook of Industrial Organization. His research has centered on industrial organization economics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, with particular emphasis on antitrust, regulatory and environmental policies. His recent work has focused on multisided platform businesses. Schmalensee is a member of the International Academy of Management and the National Commission on Energy Policy and a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on several corporate boards and is currently a director of the International Data Group and chairman of the Editorial Board of Competition Policy International.
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