Roger Martin
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| Born | 4 August 1956 Wallenstein, Ontario, Canada | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | • US • Canada | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Harvard College • Harvard University | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Trilateral Commission | |||||||||||||
Business "management thinker" who attended Bilderberg/2008
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Roger L. Martin was Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 1998-2013, and author of several books on business. He was selected to attend the 2008 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Martin has an AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, and a MBA from the Harvard School of Business.
Career
Martin began his career at Monitor Group, the global management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He spent 13 years at Monitor, becoming a director, founding their Canadian office and their educational arm, Monitor University. He served as the co-head of the firm for two years.[1]
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.[2]
Martin was appointed dean of the Rotman School of Management in September 1998. He started his third term as dean in May 2011 but he announced his resignation a year early, to take effect in June 2013.
After he stepped down as dean of Rotman, he took up a leadership position at the Martin Prosperity Institutefrom 2013 until 2019[2], where focused his research on the future of democratic capitalism.[3]
After resigning as dean of the Rothman School of Management, he took a senior position at the school's Martin Institute for Prosperity, where he began researching "the future of democratic capitalism".[4]
In 2017, Roger was named the world’s #1 management thinker by Thinkers50.[2]
Martin is a regular columnist for Businessweek's Innovation and Design Channel,[5] the Washington Post’s On Leadership blog[6] and the Financial Times’ Judgement Call column.[6] He has written fifteen Harvard Business Review articles.[7]
Other positions
Martin sat on several boards, including Thomson Reuters Corporation, the Skoll Foundation and Tennis Canada.[8] He was previously a director of BlackBerry Ltd (formerly Research In Motion Limited (RIM) from 2007 until November 25, 2013.[9]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2008 | 5 June 2008 | 8 June 2008 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | Switzerland WEF | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
References
- ↑ Why Roger Martin believes the corporate world needs to be overhauled—starting with excessive CEO compensation, Toronto Life
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c https://rogerlmartin.com/meet-roger
- ↑ http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/Connect/MediaCentre/NewsReleases/20121017.aspx
- ↑ https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news-events-and-ideas/news-and-stories/2012/january/20121017/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110628234220/http://www.businessweek.com/innovation/
- ↑ Jump up to: a b http://www.ft.com/management/judgment-call
- ↑ http://rogerlmartin.com/meet-roger
- ↑ BlackBerry Shakes Up Management, Wall Street Journal
- ↑ https://thenextweb.com/mobile/2013/11/25/blackberry-loses-coo-cmo-board-member-roger-martin-replaces-cfo-brian-bidulka/
