Alan R Beckenstein is Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate Business School, University of Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1972. He holds an AB with honors from Lafayette College and both an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan. He teaches Economics, Management, and Business-Government Relations at the Darden School. He is the Head of the Economics group at the School.

Beckenstein is the co-author of three books, including The Economics of Multi-Plant Operation (Harvard University Press). He has published articles in the areas of antitrust economics, industrial economics, forecasting, management, public policy, and environmental policy.

He has served as the faculty leader of a number of executive development programs at the Darden School and is currently on the faculty of The Executive Program, Darden’s four-week, world-renowned senior management program. He has taught in a number of programs for both Darden and for private organizations, including Boise Cascade, IBM, Union Camp, Standard and Poor’s, Bacardi, Price Waterhouse, Visy, Harris Corporation and Fletcher Challenge, among others. He has been the faculty leader for the past 16 years for the Ernst & Young (New Zealand) Executive Program.

Professor Beckenstein has research interests in the competitive reactions of corporations to the changing structure of their national and global economic environments.