S. Mark Young is a professor and writer focused on management accounting and control, particularly in relation to the entertainment industry. He was born in Sydney, Australia and attended Homebush Primary and High Schools. After he and his family moved to the United States, he graduated from Thomas Worthington High School. He holds an A.B. degree in Economics from Oberlin College, a Master's of Accounting degree from The Ohio State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the

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. Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business at the

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. He is a Professor of Accounting at the Leventhal School of Accounting, also part of the Marshall School of Business, and holds courtesy appointments as a Professor of Journalism and Communication at USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication, and as a Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School. Young also serves as an instructor in management accounting for USC's Masters of Business for Veterans and USC's Executive MBA Programs. Young is recognized as a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC, and received the Mellon Foundation Mentoring Award. In 2020, the Management Accounting Section of the

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honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Management Accounting. As an avid high school and college tennis player, Young also serves as the Official Historian for USC Men's Tennis Team. Recently, Young published ''Trojan Tennis: A History of the Storied Men's Tennis Team at the University of Southern California'' (New Chapter Books, 2018). Young has also done research on popular culture, which led to a collaboration with Mike Richardson and Steve Duin (columnist for

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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. Blast Off! has been used as a reference for sci-fi movies including Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.https://www.toyraygun.com In October 2006, Young and ''

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'' 's Dr. Drew Pinsky published a study entitled ''Narcissism and Celebrity'' in the ''Journal of Research in Personality''. This paper was the first to directly gather actual data from celebrities. The study was included as part of the

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Magazine's special issue, The Year in Ideas for 2006. In 2009, Young and Pinsky's book, The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, was published by Harper Collins (New York). The Mirror Effect describes the process by which the

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behaviors of celebrities have become normalized by modern media, and the presumed impact of this rising narcissism on today's youth.

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S. Mark Young at USC's Marshall School of Business
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