DAN MARIN teaches business ethics and business strategy in the William W. and Catherine M. Rucks Department of Management at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He came to LSU in 1984 as Director of the Masters of Business Administration program. Later he was an Associate Dean of LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration, before joining the Management Department.

He holds a BA in English from Oberlin College in Ohio, a PhD in English from the University of Iowa, and an MBA from the University of South Carolina, where, for eight years, he taught in the Department of English. For four years he was training director for Columbia, S.C., newspapers.

He has published fiction, nonfiction, poetic translation, literary criticism, scholarly articles about business theory and business communication, and, most recently, corporate histories. He and his wife, Ali, live in Baton Rouge. They have three daughters and three grandchildren.