Alfred A. Marcus

Professor Alfred Marcus

Born	1950
Residence	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nationality	Swiss
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Chicago Harvard University
Known for	Innovation and sustainability
Scientific career
Fields	Environmental policy Business Strategy Clean technologies
Institutions	Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Battelle Memorial Institute Technion, INCAE BI Norwegian Business School MIT
Thesis	What Does Reorganization Accomplish: The Case of the Environmental Protection Agency (1977)
Doctoral advisor	James Q. Wilson

Alfred Allen Marcus (born 1950) is an American author and the Edson Spencer Professor of Strategy and Technology Leadership at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and the Technological Leadership Institute. He has worked as a consultant with companies such as 3M, Corning Inc., Xcel Energy, Medtronic, General Mills, and IBM and has also taught as a visiting professor at Technion, INCAE, BI Norwegian Business School, and MIT.

Marcus was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. He attended the University of Chicago for his bachelor's and master's degrees, before finishing his PhD in political science at Harvard University under James Q. Wilson. Outside academy, he has worked on environmental and energy policy analysis during the Carter and Reagan years at the Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers in Seattle, Washington. There he conducted and participated in studies on the commercialization of alternative energy technologies and new energy saving technologies.