Professor Christopher Marquis

Chris is an Intellectual Forum Senior Research Associate.

Christopher Marquis is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the Cambridge Judge School of Business.

Chris’ research and writing focus on how businesses are creating a more resilient and sustainable capitalism by centering on the elusive triple bottom line of environmental, social, and financial performance. He is the author of more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and over 50 Harvard Business School cases on topics related to sustainable business and has earned awards for scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management and the American Sociological Association. His latest award-winning book, Better Business: How the B Corp Movement is Remaking Capitalism, focuses on the potential for the B Corp certification and stakeholder governance models to reform capitalism.

Before joining Cambridge, Chris was Samuel C. Johnson Professor in Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University, and before that a professor at Harvard Business School for 10 years, where he developed an award-winning course on Social Entrepreneurship. 

His current teaching and research projects are focused on the areas of social innovation and entrepreneurship and market development in China. In the fall of 2022 will publish a new book tentatively titled Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise.  This work builds on his prior research examining how business can have a positive impact on society, and specifically how historical and geographical processes have shaped firms’ and entrepreneurs’ social and environmental strategies and activities.

Chris has held visiting professorships at a number of leading Chinese universities. He received a Ph.D. in sociology and business administration from the University of Michigan, and before his academic career was a Vice President at JP Morgan Chase. 

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