Mark Milstein
Dr. Mark Milstein is Director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the S.C. Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. Dr. Milstein's research is focused on how and why firms generate new business growth opportunities by treating social and environmental challenges as unmet market needs. His work includes private sector approaches to poverty alleviation and technology commercialization strategies to catalyze sustainable innovation.
Professor Milstein's writings have appeared in the Academy of Management Executive, Sloan Management Review, Environmental Finance, and Value, as well as various edited books. He is an award-winning author of several popular teaching cases. Dr. Milstein has taught strategy, innovation, and sustainable enterprise to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia. He is a frequent speaker on the topics of strategy, organizational change, and innovation related to business and sustainability.
Milstein earned a B.A. in economics and Japanese from the University of Michigan. He later earned both an MBA in general management and an M.S. in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan's dual-degree Corporate Environmental Management (now Erb) Program. He received his PhD in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.