Mark Cohen

Justin Potter Professor of American Competitive Enterprise and Professor of Law at Owen Graduate School of Management

Schools

  • Owen Graduate School of Management

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Biography

Owen Graduate School of Management

Subject Areas

Ethics & Social Responsibility, Strategy and Business Economics

Biography

Mark Cohen is a leading expert on environmental regulation and disclosure policies, as well as corporate crime and punishment. His extensive career in academia and the private and public sectors has seen him publish over 100 articles and books on a wide variety of topics, serve in several capacities within the Federal Government, and consult with major corporations.

Impact

Professor Cohen’s 2001 paper with Shameek Konar – Does the Market Value Environmental Performance? – was cited as one of the 75 seminal and most influential articles in the field of Business and the Natural Environment.

Teaching

At Vanderbilt, Cohen teaches Corporate Strategies for Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Issues; Financial Analysis of ESG Data; The Future of Energy Markets in a Low Carbon Economy; Law and Business of Climate Change; and an international project course, Doing Business in Israel.

Research Interests

Professor Cohen’s research tracks are extremely diverse. Themes broadly focus on law and economics - including environmental and criminal justice issues, with topics including why firms reduce toxic chemical emissions, cost-benefit analysis of oil spill regulation and enforcement; racial disparity in the auto lending industry; and the cost of crime.

Education

B.S.F.S., International Economics, Georgetown University, 1978

M.A., Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1983

Ph.D., Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1985

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