Mark Starik

Mark Starik is a Professor of Management and Sustainability and the Director of the Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business in the College of Business at San Francisco State. He teaches in the areas of strategic management, business environmental management and policy, and business energy and climate issues and solutions. His career experience includes more than 20 years at George Washington University in which he co-founded and co-directed two sustainability related centers and chaired the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy. He has also held several management positions in and consulted with various business, government, and non-profit organizations, primarily in the energy and environment management and policy areas, and is a co-founder of several sustainability non-profit organizations, including the Academy of Management’s Organizations & the Natural Environment (ONE) Division. His research interests include strategic environmental sustainability management, sustainable energy and climate solutions, and sustainability management theory and practice, and he is a co-editor of the journal Organization and Environment. He holds a doctorate in strategic management from the University of Georgia (U.S.A.), and masters in natural resources policy and administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.