Roger L. Martin
Roger L. Martin has served as the dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto since September 1, 1998. He holds the Premier’s Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is Director of the AIC Centre for Corporate Citizenship. Previously he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.
His research work is in Integrative Thinking, Business Design, Corporate Social Responsibility and Country Competitiveness. He writes extensively on design and is a regular columnist for Business Week Online’s Innovation and Design Channel. He has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published his first book, The Responsibility Virus (Basic Books, New York), in 2002. His next book, The Opposable Mind, will be published in December 2007 (Harvard Business School Press, Boston). In 2004 he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award, in 2005 was named one of Business Week’s seven “Innovation Gurus” and in 2007 was named a Business Week “B-School All-Star” for being one of the ten most influential business professors in the world.
He serves on the boards of Thomson Corporation, Research in Motion, the Skoll Foundation, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation, Social Capital Partners, and Tennis Canada. He is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and Chair of the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress.
He received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.
