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Alfred A. Marcus is Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technology Leadership at the Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota and the Technological Leadership Institute. He has been on the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1984. Starting in 2002, he also has taught in the Management of Technology Program at the University of Minnesota's Technology Leadership Institute. Professor Marcus is among the foremost pioneers for introducing the study of the natural environment into business schools. The many books on the topic of business and the natural environment which he has written, co-written, or edited include Promise and Performance: Choosing and Implementing an Environmental Policy(1980), Reinventing Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Project XL (2002), Controversial Issues in Energy Policy (1992), The Adversary Economy (1984), Managing Environmental Issues: A Casebook (1992), Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses and Communities and Managing Beyond Compliance: The Ethical and Legal Dimensions of Corporate Responsibility. He was one of the first authors to tie together the study of business strategy and business and the natural environment and has made many independent contributions to the study of business strategy including the books, Strategic Foresight: A New Look at Scenarios(2009), Big Winners and Big Losers: The 4 Secrets of Long Term Business Success and Winning Moves: Cases in Strategic Management. Trained as a political scientist at Harvard (PH.D 1977) and schooled in history and political science as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Chicago, Professor Marcus first started to teach in business schools in 1977 in the business and society program at the University of Pittsburgh led by William Frederick. He went on from there to work on energy and environmental issues during the late Carter and early Reagan administrations at the Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers in Seattle, Washington where he conducted and participated in many studies on the commercialization of alternative energy technologies and new energy saving technologies. After the Three Mile Island nuclear power accident he became involved in the work carried out by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the organization and management of nuclear power plants. Professor Marcus has written many academic articles relating to organizational safety in publications like the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science. Along with Paul Shrivastava, Mark Starik, and his former student Gordon Rands he helped to found and lead the Organizations and Natural Environment division of the Academy of Management. His work on business and the natural environment has influenced many scholars who have made their own contributions to this field including Magali Delmas, Sanjay Sharma, Andrew Hoffman, Andy King, and Michael Lennox. Professor Marcus has spread teaching and research on this issue to other countries through courses he has taught and continues to teach at the Technion in Israel and INCAE in Costa Rica.