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Dean of the Rotman School of Management
As Dean of the Rotman School of Management, I am working to lead a transformation of MBA education. My concern is that business education is narrow where it should be broad, shallow where it should be deep and static where it should be dynamic.
My work on Integrative Thinking is aimed at producing managers who have a deeper understanding of the models that they are taught and use and an ability to integrate across seemingly incommensurable models. My work on Design Thinking is targeted at producing managers who can go beyond choosing from among existing models to creating superior new models. My work on prosperity and on corporate social responsibility has the purpose of broadening the perspective of managers to see business and business decision-making in the broader social context.
We are bringing to bear fundamental research in these areas in order to have the most innovative curriculum in the business school world.
Speeches on Redesign of MBA Education
- Roger Martin at BIF-5Roger Martin talks about how today’s MBA programs create nothing but “jargon spewing economic vandals” and the imperative for change.
Articles I Have Written About My Work in MBA Education:
I summarized both my discontent with business education and my aspirations for it in post as a featured commentator on Harvard Business Review’s “How to Fix Business Schools” blog:
- Rotman Magazine
- Building Better Decision Makers: The 3D MBA, Winter 2010
- Harvard Business Review Online:
- How to Fix Business Schools: It’s Time for the 3-D MBA (April 30, 2009)
- Management Is Not a Profession — But It Can Be Taught (July 1, 2010)
- How to Fix Business Schools: MBAs: Owned by Their Models (April 9, 2009)
- BusinessWeek
- What we Learned from the Crash (November 12, 2010)
- Fear, Loathing, and the MBA (April 12, 2010)
- Reuters.com
- The Limits of the Scientific Method in Economics and the World: Part I (November 10, 2011)
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The Limits of the Scientific Method in Economics and the World: Part II, November 10, 2011
- The Limits of the Scientific Method in Economics and the World: Part II (November 10, 2011)
- Financial Times:
- The battleground that is business research, (November 1, 2010)
- MBA World Needs to Broaden its Horizons (January 11, 2010)
Interviews About My Work in MBA Education:
- National Film Board of Canada
- Part I: Roger Martin on the Canadian dimension of the crisis, Interview by Philip Lewis (February 12, 2010)
- Part II: Roger Martin on the Canadian dimension of the crisis, Interview by Philip Lewis (March 9, 2010)
- Bobmorris.biz
- An Interview of Roger Martin, by Bob Morris (September 16, 2010)
- First Friday Book Synopsis
- Interview #1: Roger Martin, by Bob Morris (March 12, 2010)
Articles Written About My Work in MBA Education:
- The New York Times
- Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School? by Lane Wallace (January 10, 2010)
- Spanish-U.S. Master’s Degree will be Steeped in Liberal Arts, by D. D. Guttenplan (January 16, 2011)
- The Toronto Star
- Business School goes to Lawrence Heights, by Louise Brown (January 24, 2011)
- Globe & Mail:
- The Dean Martin Show (November 2006)
- Getting Face Time with Star MBA Profs, by Diane Peters (November 3, 2011)
- Martin: A new way of thinking for a new way of business, by Harvey Schachter (October 27, 2011)
- Business Students Losers in Federal Research Funding Experiment, by James Bradshaw (July 4, 2011)
- Advantage, Martin (April 2009)
- University to launch ‘Business School 2.0′ (May 18, 2000)
- Business dean sets lofty standards (May 4, 1998)
- Toronto Life:
- Artful Roger (September 2004)
- Financial Times:
- Pioneer of the Big Picture (September 11, 2000)
- Roger Martin gets third term at Toronto’s Rotman school, By Della Bradshaw (February 18, 2011)
- Two heads are better than one, by Della Bradshaw (October 17, 2010)
- Looking at the Bigger Picture (August 13, 2001)
- DesignObserver Blog
- Let’s Give an “F” to the FT List of Best Business Schools, by Bruce Nussbaum (March 10, 2011)
- TheAtlantic.com
- One More Note About Integrative Thinking, by Lane Wallace (January 30, 2011)
- Innovation Isn’t About Math, by Lane Wallace (January 28, 2011)
- kip/bot/blog
- 3D Brands (October 25, 2010)
- The Elmira Independent
- Gladwell and Martin brighten stage in Floradale, by Gail Martin (March 10, 2010)
- BusinessWeek.com
- Rotman Dean, Roger Martin: In Search of the 3D MBA, by Helen Walters (October 7, 2009)
- Fast Company Magazine:
- Learning and Change: Building Business School 2.0 (December 1999)
- The South China Morning Post :
- Educator and Innovator Puts People Before Profit (June 1, 2009)
- The National Post:
- Macleans.ca
- Poor Little Rich MBAs, by Paul Wells (September 15, 2011)
- Rave for U of T b-school (January 10, 2010)
- Wall Street Journal
- Where Business Thinkers Learn Their Lessons, by Melissa Korn (December 28, 2011)
