Ann received her Ph.D. from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002.

Ann is interested in inter-organizational learning in the emergence, diffusion and abandonment of new technologies, practices, and institutions, with a particular focus on the emergence and diffusion of clean tech and environmental management practices.

Ann's research has been published in top tier academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, the Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

She is the recipient of the 2010 Erwin Gaumnitz Distinguished Junior Faculty Research Award from the Wisconsin School of Business. In 2009, she received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management, Organization and the Natural Environment Division. Her dissertation on the ISO 9000 quality management standard was the winner of the 2001 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition.

Ann serves as the director of the school's Graduate Certificate in Business, Environment and Social Responsibility (BESR). She currently also serves on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Review.

Prior to coming to the U.S. to get her Ph.D., Ann was a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Göttingen, Germany in 1997-98. She has an M.A. in Economics and is a valedictorian at the School of Economics at the University of Göttingen.