Christopher Marquis

Professor, Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

Visiting Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education

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  • Harvard Kennedy School
  • Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University
  • Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education
  • eCornell

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Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

Chris Marquis is the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and professor of management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked at Harvard Business School and has held visiting positions at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Jiaotong University. Marquis received a PhD in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan. Professor Marquis''s teaching and research is focused on how business can have a positive impact on society and the natural environment. He is currently pursuing several streams of research. The first seeks to assess how firms'' and entrepreneurs'' social and environmental strategies and activities can be designed to maximize both business and social value. The second explores how environmental sustainability and shared value initiatives have developed in China. Finally, the third examines institutional change processes in emerging markets. These research projects build on Marquis''s earlier work that analyzed how firm behavior is shaped by broader contexts such as embeddedness in geographic communities and how environmental conditions during founding periods leave a lasting imprint on organizations. In particular, Marquis''s prior research examined the effects of these processes in the contexts of community-based social networks and the evolution of the US banking industry. Marquis''s research has won a number of national awards, including the 2006 William H. Newman Award for best dissertation across the entire the Academy of Management, the 2006 Louis R. Pondy award for best dissertation in organizational theory from the Academy of Management, the 2003 James D. Thompson Award for best graduate student paper from the American Sociological Association, and the 2005 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was a finalist for the 2010 and 2013 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, a runner-up in the Academy of Management''s Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory in 2009, and a finalist in the 2004 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Marquis has published in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, as well as a number of edited collections. He is an associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly and an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management and of the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR). Before his academic career, Marquis worked for six years in the financial services industry, most recently as vice president and technology manager for a business unit of J.P. Morgan Chase.

Academic Degrees

  • Ph D University of Michigan, 2005
  • MA University of Michigan, 2002
  • MBA University of Pittsburgh, 1994
  • MA University of Pittsburgh, 1993
  • BA University of Notre Dame, 1992

Harvard Kennedy School

Chris Marquis is a Visiting Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy. He is also the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, he worked at Harvard Business School. He received a PhD in Sociology and Organizational Behavior from the University of Michigan.

Marquis' primary teaching and research focus is the social responsibility strategies of corporations around the globe, with a particular emphasis on firms in China. Theoretically, this research builds on his prior work that examined the mechanisms of how and why firm behavior varies over time and across geographic contexts. Please see his website, CV, biography and Google Scholar site for more information about his teaching and research.

Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education

Professor Marquis served two terms as an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly, and has also been a Senior Editor at Organization Science and Management and Organization Review. He has also served a term as Representative at Large for the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) and Organization and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management.

Before returning to academia, Marquis was a Vice President and Technology Manager at JP Morgan Chase. He currently is on the advisory board of China-focused media platform SupChina.

Previous appointments

Professor Marquis was previously the Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management and Organizations, SC Johnson College of Business. Before his six years at Cornell, he spent 10 years as an Assistant and Associate professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Professor Marquis also spent a year and a half at Harvard Kennedy School as a Professor of Social Innovation and Public Policy and he is currently a Faculty Affiliate at the Harvard Kennedy School Social Innovation and Change Initiative, and the Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.

Awards & honours

  • Winner, Responsible Research in Management Award, Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM), 2021
  • Gold Medal(Business Ethics Category), Axiom Business Book Awards, 2021
  • Finalist, Best Business Book, Porchlight Books, 2020
  • Runner-up, Best Book (Management & Workplace Culture category), Porchlight Books, 2020
  • Finalist, Responsible Research in Management Award, Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM), 2019
  • International Educator Award, State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs, Government of China, 2018
  • Emerald Citation of Excellence Award (for Marquis and Qian (2014)), Organization Science, 2017
  • Finalist, Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, 2013
  • Finalist, Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, 2010
  • Academy of Management, William H Newman Award for best paper based on a dissertation, 2006
  • Academy of Management, OMT Division, Louis R Pondy Award for best paper based on a dissertation, 2006
  • State Farm Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2004
  • Finalist, INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, 2004
  • American Sociological Association, OOW Division, James D Thompson Award for best graduate student paper, 2003

Selected publications

  • Marquis, C. (2020) Better business: how the B corp movement is remaking capitalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Marquis, C. and Qiao, K. (2020) “Waking from Mao’s dream: communist ideological imprinting and the internationalization of entrepreneurial ventures in China.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(3): 795-830
  • Marquis, C. and Bird, Y. (2018) “The paradox of responsive authoritarianism: civil society, local governments and environmental penalties in China.” Organization Science, 29(5): 948-968
  • Marquis, C. and Tilcsik, A. (2016) “Institutional equivalence: how industry and community peers influence corporate philanthropy.” Organization Science, 27(5): 1325-1341
  • Marquis, C., Toffel, M. and Zhou, Y. (2016) “Scrutiny, norms, and selective disclosure: a global study of greenwashing.” Organization Science, 27(2): 483-504
  • Marquis, C. and Qian, C. (2014) “Corporate social responsibility reporting in China: symbol or substance?” Organization Science, 25(1): 127-148

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