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August 22, 2007 Rotman Dean Roger Martin Named as B-School All Star by BusinessWeek. Toronto – The Dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has been named as one of ten B-School All-Stars who are revolutionizing business education by BusinessWeek.com. Roger Martin, who has served as Dean at the Rotman School since September 1998, was cited for pioneering a business philosophy that is oriented around design and integrative thinking, which says “corporate managers should become flexible problem-solvers, not sophisticated numbers-crunchers.” He was the only non-American and current business school Dean to make the list. Others who were named by the website include Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen, Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School, Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago, and Warren Bennis of the University of Southern California. In 2005 Martin’s teaching also earned him a spot on BusinessWeek’s list of “innovation gurus.” The article is available online at www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/aug2007/bs20070821_430502.htm. At the Rotman School, Martin also holds the Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness and is the Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship. He was formerly a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research interests lie in the areas of global competitiveness, integrative thinking, business design and corporate citizenship. He has written seven Harvard Business Review articles and published his first book, The Responsibility Virus (Basic Books, New York), in 2002. His second book, The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in December 2007. He is a director of several firms and organizations in both the not-for-profit and private sectors. Under Martin’s leadership, the Rotman School has been able to successfully increase the size of its graduate and executive programs, attract leading students and faculty from around the world, and steadily improved the School’s position in several prestigious rankings of business schools internationally. |