Lecturer
Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise
Johnson School
405 Sage Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-4982
Fax: 607-254-4590
e-mail: mm462@cornell.edu
URL: http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/sge/profiles/milstein.html

Mark Milstein is a Lecturer at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University where he teaches and conducts research on strategy, decision-making, technology management and innovation.

Dr. Milstein is also the Business Research Director for the Sustainable Enterprise Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a non profit, non partisan think tank located in Washington, D.C. His responsibilities at WRI include leadership on a number of projects and initiatives in the United States, Latin America, and China that are related to strategy and innovation in the private sector.

Dr. Milstein's research is focused on different aspects of how and why firms generate new business growth opportunities by meeting unmet market needs, including private sector approaches to poverty alleviation. Since 2001, he has headed a longitudinal study funded by the National Science Foundation that involves understanding how corporate initiatives to build new businesses that serve the world's poorest people affect core organizational change and innovation. His writing has appeared in the Academy of Management Executive, Sloan Management Review, 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 US, Latin America and Asia. He consults with a number of multi-national firms, small and medium sized enterprises, and NGOs on strategy, organizational change and innovation.

Prior to joining the Johnson School, Mark was an adjunct faculty at Kenan-Flagler Business School at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics and Japanese from the University of Michigan. He later earned both an M.B.A. in general management and an M.S. in natural resource policy from the University of Michigan's dual-degree Corporate Environmental Management Program. Mark received his PhD in strategic management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Courses Taught
NBA 542 Technology Commercialization for the Base of the Pyramid
NBA 658 Sustainable Global Enterprise Immersion - Practicum
NCCB509-MBQC901 Strategy