MEET THE DEAN

Roger Martin has served as Dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1, 1998. He is also a professor of Strategic Management, holds the Premier's Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the School. Previously, he spent 13 years as a director of Monitor Company, the global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.

His research interests include Integrative Thinking, Business Design, Corporate Social Responsibility and Country Competitiveness. He writes extensively on design, has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published four books: The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Press, 2009); The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking (Harvard Business Press, 2007), The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets -- And the Rest of Us -- Can Harness The Power of True Partnership (Basic Books, 2002), and The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future, with Mihnea Moldoveanu (Oxford University Press, 2008).

In October of 2009, Roger was named as one of the world’s 50 most influential living management thinkers in the Thinkers 50 Ranking published in The Times (London, UK). He was cited for his work in developing Integrative Thinking and was the only business school Dean named to the list. He was also one of only four Canadians named to the list. In 2007 he was named a BusinessWeek 'B-School All-Star' as one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. BusinessWeek also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005, and in 2004, he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award.

Martin serves on the Boards of Thomson Reuters, Research in Motion, The Skoll Foundation, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation, Social Capital Partners and Tennis Canada. He is also a trustee of The Hospital for Sick Children and chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress.

A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, he received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981.

Contact Information:
martin@rotman.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416.978.3422
Office: Room 307, Rotman School