Roger Martin
Bio
In 2019, Roger was named the world’s #2 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. For the fifth consecutive time Roger was named among the 50 most influential business thinkers in the world today.
Roger Martin served as the Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute and the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management and the Premier’s Chair in Productivity & Competitiveness. From 1998 to 2013, he served as Dean. In 2013, he was named global Dean of the Year by the leading business school website, Poets & Quants.
He has published 11 books the most recent of which are Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (Harvard Business Review Press, 2017) Getting Beyond Better written with Sally Osberg (HBRP, 2015) and Playing to Win written with A.G. Lafley (HBRP, 2013), which won the award for Best Book of 2012-13 by the Thinkers50. He has written 25 Harvard Business Review articles.
Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego and Verizon.
A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981.
Academic Positions
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Present
Academic Director, Martin Prosperity Institute
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Present
Academic Director, Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship
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1998-2013
Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Non-Academic Positions
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1991-1998
Member, Global Executive Committee Chairman, Monitor University
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1995-1996
Co-CEO, Monitor Company Canada Limited
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1987-1991
Managing Director, Monitor Company Canada Limited
Selected Publications - Papers
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The Problem with Corporate Governance
Roger L. Martin
Prepared for the International Academy of Management
2003
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Confidence Control and Compensation in the Modern Corporation
Roger L. Martin
Background paper prepared for The Ditchley Foundation Conference
2003
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Where are the Exports? The Canadian Health Care Mystery
Roger L. Martin
2003
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Why do People and Organizations Produce the Opposite of What They Intend?
Roger L. Martin with M.A. Archer and L. Brill,
prepared for The Walkerton Enquiry
2002
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Demand for Innovation
Prepared for Industry Canada Innovation Consultation
2002
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Agency Theory and the Design of Efficient Governance Mechanisms ,
Roger L. Martin with Mihnea Moldoveanu
Prepared for the Joint Committee on Corporate Governance
2001
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Board Governance and the Responsibility Virus
Roger L. Martin
Prepared for the Joint Committee on Corporate Governance
2000
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Strategic Choice Structuring
Roger L. Marting
1997
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
Roger L. Martin and Jennifer Riel
Harvard Business Review Press
2017
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Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works
Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg
Harvard Business Review Press
2015
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Playing to Win
A. G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin
Harvard Business Review Press
2013
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Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
Roger L. Martin
Harvard Business Review Press
2011
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Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility
Roger L. Martin with Alison Kemper
Bloomsbury
Issue:in QFinance: The Ultimate Resource
2009
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The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage
Roger L. Martin
Harvard Business Press
2009
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Diaminds: Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers
Roger L. Martin and Mihnea Moldoveanu
Rotman/University of Toronto Press
2009
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The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future
Roger L. Martin with Mihnea Moldoveanu
Oxford University Press
2008
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The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking
Roger L. Martin
Harvard Business Review Press
2007
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Jurisdictional Advantage
MIT Press
Issue:Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 5, National Bureau of Economic Research
2005
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The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets And the Rest of Us Can Harness the Power of True Partnership
Roger L. Martin
Basic Books
2002
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Canadian Competitiveness: A Decade After the Crossroads
Roger L. Martin with Michael Porter
2001
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What Canada Could be for Education in the 21st Century
Roger L. Martin
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Issue:Memos to the Prime Minister: What Canada Could be in the 21st Century
2001
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Breaking the Code of Change: Observations and Critique
Roger L. Martin
Harvard Business Review Press
Issue:Breaking the Code of Change
2000
Research and Teaching Interests
Integrative Thinking, Design of Business, Strategy, Incentives & Governance, Democratic Capitalism, Social Innovation
Honors and Awards
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2018
Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, Royal Military College of Canada
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2017
#1 Top Management Thinker in the World, Thinkers50
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2016
Member of the Order of Canada, Order of Canada
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2013
#3 Top Management Thinker in the World, Thinkers50
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2013
Dean of the Year, Poets & Quants'
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2013
20 Most Influential Business Professors Alive Today, Top Business Degrees
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2010
Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy Magazine
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2009
The 25 Most Influential People in Business, Canadian Business Magazine
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2007
B-school All Star, BusinessWeek.com
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2005
Innovation Guru, BusinessWeek.com
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2004
McLuhan International Festival of the Future, Commerce Visionary Award