Marc A. Cohen

Marc A. Cohen joined the faculty of the Albers School in the fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor. He teaches business ethics at the undergraduate and MBA levels, undergraduate philosophy courses, and the Leadership-Executive MBA Capstone Project course. Professor Cohen earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a joint appointment in the philosophy department at Seattle University. His academic work concerns social contract theory and exploitation in...See more

Marc A. Cohen joined the faculty of the Albers School in the fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor. He teaches business ethics at the undergraduate and MBA levels, undergraduate philosophy courses, and the Leadership-Executive MBA Capstone Project course. Professor Cohen earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a joint appointment in the philosophy department at Seattle University. His academic work concerns social contract theory and exploitation in business ethics; emotions, decision-making and rational agency in moral psychology; and more general questions in moral/ political philosophy about what makes society more than an accidental crowd. Prior to joining Albers, Prof. Cohen served as vice president and corporate strategist at Branch Banking & Trust Co. (North Carolina), as assistant vice president in the Bank s middle market commercial lending group, and as a management consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now part of Oliver Wyman). He also served as adjunct faculty in the philosophy departments at George Washington University and Wake Forest University. See less