Biography
Roger MARTIN2009 ranking: 32
Roger Martin is a leading business strategist, author and Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He is an advisor to Procter & Gamble, working on the company's design strategy.
He has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published four books including his latest book, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage which was published in 2009 by Harvard Business Press. His last book, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, brought a fresh perspective to bear on leadership by examining the way the world's successful business leaders create better solutions to complicated problems with conflicting demands.
In 2007 Prof. Martin was named a BusinessWeek 'B-School All-Star' for being 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. At the Rotman School, he also holds the Premier's Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship.
Martin received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.
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