I expect to complete my PhD in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Management from Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta in 2020. I earned a Master of Environmental Management degree from Yale University.

Prior to my academic career, I worked with The Forest Trust, American Friends Service Committee, Heinrich Böll Foundation, and Global Environmental Institute in a number of managerial and consultancy roles.

I conduct research on corporate sustainability, with a focus on sustainability certifications. My research engages with various important matters such as forest, gender, and the future of business. My broader research and teaching interests include: How do organizations work? How could businesses contribute to societal welfare? How could management scholarship help build a better society?

• Finalist for Responsible Research in Management Award, IACMR and RRBM, 2019-2020
• Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2018-2019
• GRA Rice Graduate Scholarship in Business, University of Alberta, 2016-2017
• Beinecke FES Scholarship, Yale University, 2007-2009

Gehman, J., Grimes, M., & Cao, K. 2019. Why we care about Certified B Corporations: From valuing growth to certifying values. Academy of Management Discoveries, 5(1): 97-101

Cao, K., Gehman, J., & Grimes, M. 2018. Standing out and fitting in: Charting the emergence of Certified B Corporations by industry and region. In A.C. Corbett & J.A. Katz (Eds.), Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth: Vol. 19. Hybrid ventures (1-38)

• Referenced in "Choosing Plan B: Danone Rethinks the Idea of the Firm." 2018, August 11. The Economist, 414(9101)

Grimes, M., Gehman, J., & Cao, K . 2018. Positively deviant: Identity work through B Corporation certification. Journal of Business Venturing, 33(2): 130-148

• 2019-2020 Responsible Research in Management Award Finalist

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Cao, K. & Gehman, J. Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations. Manuscript prepared for Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Edited by R. Griffin. Oxford University Press. Version: August 2020.

• Focused on scholarship in Management. Also covers representative works in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Law, Marketing, Sociology, and Political Science.
• Comments and suggestions are much welcome.

Lazaridis School of Business and Economics

• Three sections of BU 481 Business Policy 1: Strategic Management in Fall, 2020-2021

Alberta School of Business

• Two sections of SMO 441 Strategy and Innovation in 2018
• Guest lecturer for one session of SMO 641 Business Strategy in 2016