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Dr. Mark Milstein

Clinical Professor of Management

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Dr. Mark Milstein is Clinical Professor of Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Faculty Director of the SC Johnson College of Business’ Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. He is also a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and is Faculty Director of the Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellows Program, a collaboration between Cornell Atkinson and the College of Business. Mark engages in applied research focused on market and enterprise creation; business development; clean technology commercialization; and sustainable finance. He’s worked with more than 150 firms across a range of industries, including renewable energy and carbon markets, life sciences and sustainable agriculture, consumables, food and nutrition, health care and hospitality management, as well as finance and international development. His applied research has been funded by the US Forest Service, MasterCard Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation among others. Mark grew up in Bethesda, MD. He holds a BA in Economics and Japanese, an MBA, and an MS in Environmental Behavior and Policy from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been at Cornell since 2004.