Welcome to the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

The Lee-Chin Institute's purpose is to help current and future business leaders integrate corporate citizenship into business strategy and practices. The Lee-Chin Institute is the focal point for corporate citizenship initiatives at Rotman, actively developing and disseminating useful research, tools and curricula.

Recent publications

Roger Martin and Alison Kemper on "Saving the Planet: A Tale of Two Strategies" in Harvard Business Review, April 2012.

Roger Martin’s provocative new book reveals the culprit behind the sorry state of American capitalism, FIXING THE GAME: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL (Harvard Business Review Press; May 2011).  

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For senior executives: Download the Lee-Chin Institute's The What’s a CEO to do? Toolkit, a real-world guide that helps business leaders understand and prioritize key social and environmental issues and identify opportunities as well as potential risks (to download, click on the photo).

Other news:

• Roger Martin and Alison Kemper on "Saving the Planet: A Tale of Two Strategies" in Harvard Business Review, April 2012. 
• Roger Martin featured in "Is Bay Street Doomed? Roger Martin, head of the Rotman business school, thinks it is. He's launched a crusade against fat-cat CEOs to save capitalism from itself" (Toronto Life March 2012)
• Roger Martin and Jennifer Riel on What Occupy Wall Street got right (Fortune, November 9, 2011)
• Roger Martin in "Saving Capitalism From Itself" (Management Today, September 2011)
• Fixing the Game offers a lively, intricate but accessible argument, neatly stitched together with references to the NFL and other sports when analogies are helpful. An interview with Martin was also posted to the financial news site, TheStreet.com, on May 25.
• Host of Drucker on the Dial, Phalana Tiller, interviews Roger Martin on a variety of subjects, including his new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL.
• Roger Martin is featured in Chrystia Freeland's column, Business and the common good (Reuters, May 12, 2011)
• Watch Roger Martin on the Business News Network speaking about his book, Fixing the Game. 
• A video interview with Roger has been posted to HBR.org. 
• An excerpt from Dean Roger Martin's new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL, was posted to the website of Fast Company on May 4.
• An excerpt from Dean Roger Martin's new book, Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL, was posted to The Huffington Post on May 2. An excerpt was also posted to the website of The Globe & Mail on April 29. In addition, he participated in an online chat about the book at The Globe & Mail on May 2.
• Special to the Globe and Mail, Roger Martin writes "How an economic theory changed the way CEOs get paid" (Book excerpt) (April 26, 2011).
• An excerpt from Roger's book is published in the Huffington Post, "Fixing the Game: What the NFL Can Teach Us About Executive Compensation" (April 25, 2011).
• Special to the Globe and Mail, Roger Martin writes "The next financial crisis could be right around the corner" (Book excerpt) (April 25, 2011).
• The winners of the 4th Annual Rotman International Net Impact Corporate Social Responsibility Case Competition were from the Schulich School of Business, York University (February 12, 2011)
• Alison Kemper and Roger Martin are published in the European Management Review - “After the fall: The global financial crisis as a test of corporate social responsibility theories.” European Management Review 7, no. 4 (2010): 229-239.
• Tyler Hamilton writes "Putting a price on carbon will send the right signals" in the Toronto Star, responding to the Sustainable Prosperity policy brief by Roger Martin and Alison Kemper (July 6, 2010)
• Research links carbon pricing and productivity, policy brief for Sustainable Prosperity by Roger Martin, Academic Director of the Lee-Chin Institute and Dean of the Rotman School, and Alison Kemper, Research Officer at the Lee-Chin Institute (June 30, 2010). For the full text of the brief, click here.
• Rod Lohin, Executive Director of the Lee-Chin Institute, on Corporate Responsibilty: Recession Proof? in Macleans (June 21, 2010).
• Harvard Business School's Bob Eccles and Grant Thornton's Mike Krzus gave a public talk at Rotman based on their new book One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (Wiley, 2010). Click here for their slides. (May 12, 2010)
• New name for the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at Rotman (April 8, 2010).
• Rod Lohin, Executive Director of the Lee-Chin Institute, on "Corporate social responsibility: a clear business case" in the Globe and Mail (March 15, 2010).

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