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  Joseph E. Martin

Director of Canadian Business History
Adjunct Professor of Business Strategy and Executive in Residence
 

Degrees
 
AMP, Harvard
BA(Hons), University of Manitoba
Email  
Phone   416 978 4570

Positions Held

Academic Positions
2004 ff   Director of Canadian Business History
1995 -Present   Board Member, Impact Consulting


Non-Academic Positions
2009ff   Chair of Governors, National Business Archives of Canada
2003-Present   President Emeritus, Canada's National History Society
2003-Present   Board Member, U of Winnipeg Foundation
2007-Present   Canadian Advisory Board, WNED
1996-Present   Board Member, AGF Group of Funds
1985-1995   Chairman of Management Consulting Committee, Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu International
1978-1990   Partner in charge, Canadian Practice
1972-1995   Partner, Deloitte Consulting
1967-68   President, Manitoba Historical Society
1966-1995   Consultant, Deloitte Consulting
1961-1966   Executive Assistant, Premier of Manitoba
1959-1961   Investment Analyst, Monarch Life Insurance

 


Selected Articles and Papers
  • "Let’s be Honest about 'Honest John'," Toronto Globe and Mail, June 11, 2007
  • "Ontario Political Dynasty, Hanging in the Balance," National Post, September 15, 2004
  • "A Concise History of Capitalism," Rotman Management, Winter, 2003
  • "Poverty Doesn't Cause Terrorism," Financial Post, September 17, 2002
  • "The Lindbergh's Arctic Flight," Dieter K. Buse and Marthe Brown, The Beaver, April/May, 2002
  • "Boom?What Boom?," The Financial Post, March 30, 2000
  • "The Bottom Line at Century's End," The Beaver, December 1999/January, 2000
  • "The Value of a Liberal Arts Education in Business," The Alumni Journal, University of Winnipeg, 1998
  • "Management Requirements for the Late 90s," Ivey Business Quarterly, Summer , 1994
  • "Going International," Ivey Business Quarterly, Summer, 1993, 72-77
  • "William Lyon Mackenzie King: Canada's First Management Consultant?," Business Quarterly, University of Western Ontario, republished in Journal of Management Consulting, 1991
  • "An Historical Perspective: Developments in the Canadian Management Consulting Profession," CMC Journal, Summer, 1991, 7- 9
  • "Doing Business in Japan: A Personal View," Ivey Business Quarterly, Winter, 1987, 58-62
  • "Management Trends in the mid-80s-Lean and Getting Meaner," Ivey Business Quarterly, Spring, 1985
  • "A New Phenomenom: anti Canadian sentiment in U.S. business community," with Mark Palmer, Business Quarterly, Winter, 1981, 56-60
  • " The Government Squeeze," Journal of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto, February, 1975, 2-7
  • "Real Property Taxation: Stirrings of Reform," Canadian Tax Journal, September-October, 1972, 437-452
  • "Management Consultants in the Public Sector," with Harry Meredith, Canadian Public Administration, Winter, 1970, 383-95
Books/Chapters
  • Relentless Change, A Case Book for the Study of Business History, UTP/Rotman School of Management, 2009
  • Case 2 AGF Management Limited, Hitti, Ireland, Hoskisson, Sheppard, Rowe, Thomson. Nelson, in Strategic Management, Competitiveness and Globalization Cases, 30-35, 2007
  • The Role and Place of Ontario in the Canadian Confederation, Ontario Economic Council, n The Evolution Policy in Contemporary Ontario, 1974
  • Real Property Tax; Stirrings of Reform, Lloyd Axworthy, James M. Gillies, Butterworth, in The City: Canada’s Prospects, Canada’s Problems , 289-300, 1973
Teaching Cases
  • 2004, "ASIWW [A]"
  • 2002, "Canada's National History Society [A]"
Recent Presentations
  • "The Evolution of Capitalism in Canada and Australia in the 20th Century" The Business & Labour History Group, University of Australai, March 10, 2008
  • "The Evolving Role of the CSO [Chief Strategy Officer] " Accenture North American Web Cast, May 30, 2008
  • "The Canadian Experience With Capitalism and Democracy or ‘Canada Owes a Debt to Alexander Hamilton" Harvard Business School Club of Ottawa, HBS Centennial Seminar , June 18, 2008
  • "Early Evidence of the Shift of the Commercial Centre of Canada from Montreal to Toronto" McCord Museum/Carleton University Colloquium on Trading Places, November 4, 2006
  • "A Concise History of Canadian Business " Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, December 12, 2005

Professional Affiliations/Memberships
  • Business History Conference

Honors/Awards

1983 Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Consultants of Ontario (FCMC)
1995 LLD, Honoris Causa, University of Winnipeg
2004 Arbor Award, University of Toronto
2008 Philip B. Lind Award, WNED/PBS
2008 Visiting Scholar, University of Sydney, Australia

Research and Teaching Interests

Business History Canadian Political History of Conservative Party Management Theory