ABOUT Roger Martin

In 2017, Roger Martin was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50, a biannual ranking of the most influential global business thinkers. Roger is a trusted strategy advisor to the CEOs of companies worldwide including Procter & Gamble, Lego, and Ford. Roger Martin is a Professor Emeritus at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where he served as Dean from 1998-2013, Academic Director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship from 2004-2019, and Institute Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute from 2013-2019.

His research work is in Strategy, Democratic Capitalism, Integrative Thinking, Design of Business, Incentives & Governance, and Social Innovation. His extensive writing includes 13 books and 30 Harvard Business Review articles. His newest book is A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Managerial Effectiveness (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022). His previous books include: When More is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency (HBRP, 2020). Creating Great Choices written with Jennifer Riel (HBRP, 2017).

In 2010, he was named one of the 27 most influential designers in the world by Business Week. In 2007, he was named a Business Week ‘B-School All-Star’ for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. Business Week also named him one of seven ‘Innovation Gurus’ in 2005. He serves as Chair of The Good Jobs Institute and the I-Think Initiative, and on the Board of The Nine Dots Prize.

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