S. Mark Young

S. Mark Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He is also a Professor of Accounting and Management within the Marshall School of Business, and a courtesy appointment as Professor of Journalism and Communication (USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication) and Professor Management and Organization in the Marshall School. As avid tennis player, Young also serves as the Historian for USC Men's Tennis Team - the team with the most NCAA Championships (20) in men's collegiate tennis. Young teaches and does research in the areas of management accounting and control and the business of entertainment with a speciality in the psychology and economics of celebrity and popular culture. He also maintains strong interests in China Cinema and Bollywood. In 2005 he created a program of study of the entertainment industry for MBA students at USC. Young is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC and has won several international research. mentoring and teaching awards including the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Literature Award and the Mellon Foundation Mentoring Award. He has published over 30 academic papers in academic journals. Currently, he is on the Board of Governors of Fremont College (founded by Sabrina Kay). His research on popular culture led to a collaboration with Mike Richardson (Dark Horse Entertainment's President) and Steve Duin (columnist for The Oregonian newspaper), on Blast Off! Rockets, Robots, Ray Guns and Rarities from the Golden Age of Space Toys (Dark Horse Books, 2001). The book is a history of the role and influence of space toys on society through the late 1950s. Dr. Gene Metcalf, well-known author of Raygun, called Blast Off! "the definitive book on the history of space toys." Blast Off! has been used a reference for sci-fi movies including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorr