About Christopher Marquis
Regeneration Insights explores how businesses can drive systemic change through regeneration, spotlighting models, movements, and ideas that advance social and environmental transformation.
My name is Christopher Marquis, and I am the Sinyi Professor at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Prior to Cambridge, I spent seventeen years teaching in the USA at Cornell, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
I write a regular column for Forbes and my work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, Fortune, Boston Globe, Fast Company, The American Prospect, Jacobin, Project Syndicate, TIME, Barron’s, Foreign Policy, The Hill and Harvard Business Review as well as many academic journals ranging from the American Journal of Sociology and American Sociological Review to Administrative Science Quarterly and Academy of Management Review.
My recent books include The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profit and Socializes Cost (2024), Better Business: How the B Corp is Remaking Capitalism (2020), and Mao and Markets (2022), a Financial Times “Best Book of 2022. ”
Some praise for The Profiteers includes:
“Timely and full of sharp insight” ―Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics
“A profound call to action”―Paul Hawken, cofounder, Smith & Hawken, and author of Regeneration
“Powerful, passionate, and persuasive.