C HAPTER 1: T HE P ROSPERITY C HALLENGE
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Roger L. Martin is dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to a seven-year term beginning in September 1998. He is also a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School. A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger was formerly a director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his 13 years with Monitor, he founded and chaired Monitor University, the firm’s educational arm, served as co-head of the firm for two years, and founded the Canadian office. His research interests lie in the areas of global competitiveness, integrative thinking, and organizational learning. He has written Harvard Business Review articles in 1993, 2002 and 2003. His first book, The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets - And the Rest of Us — Can Harness The Power of True Partnership (Basic Books), was published in October 2002. He writes extensively on Canadian competitiveness policy in The Globe and Mail , National Post and Time magazine. He is currently chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. He serves as a director for The Thomson Corporation; is on the Advisory Boards of Butterfield & Robinson and Social Capital Partners; is a founder of E-magine; and is a trustee of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
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