Professor Alfred Marcus
Edson Spencer Chair in Strategic Management, Center for Development of Technological Leadership, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the Carlson School, and co-director of the Center for Integrative Leadership

In addition to teaching courses in ethics and leadership, Alfred Marcus, professor of Strategic Management and Organization, leads an intensive two-week seminar in Costa Rica, where MBA students explore the relationships between environmental management and profits.

Marcus has written about business strategy, ethics, and the global economy; the productivity consequences of flexible regulations; and incentive regulation in the nuclear power industry. His current work focuses on the factors that result in long-term business success. He has three new books on this topic: Management Strategy: Achieving Sustained Competitive Advantage (McGraw-Hill Irwin 2005); Winning Moves: A Strategic Management Casebook (Marsh Publications 2005); and Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure (Wharton 2005).

Marcus consults with major corporations such as 3M, Medtronic, Excel Energy, and General Mills. He also has served as a member of the Governor's Roundtable on Sustainable Development and has conducted research on business and the natural environment, safety and quality, and regulation and deregulation.


Marcus also serves as a co-director of the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota. The center's goal is to develop a better understanding of how collective action across sectors (business, government, nonprofits, media, academia) and geographic boundaries can solve some of the world’s most pressing and complex societal problems. It is a cooperative undertaking of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Carlson School of Management.

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