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Corporate Strategy Drives Prosperity of Nations Says University of Toronto Business School Dean.
HONG KONG / TORONTO, December 4, 2001 -- It is becoming increasingly clear that the prosperity of nations is driven in substantial part by the way in which their corporations choose to compete, says Dean Roger L. Martin of the University of Toronto’s Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. “As the world globalizes, industries and firms are not spread evenly across the world. Rather, they are clustering in narrow geographic locations and from there serving the world market,” says Martin. “Choices made by local firms about how high to set aspirations, where to compete and how to win, strongly influence whether or not globally competitive clusters emerge. And the more globally competitive clusters a nation has, the more prosperous its people are.” Roger Martin has worked extensively over the past two decades with Michael Porter of Harvard Business School on the global competitiveness of corporations and the prosperity of nations and as a Director of Monitor Company on corporate strategy for some of the world’s leading corporation. He will discuss the latest research findings on global competitiveness and the role of corporate choices in a special presentation to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong on December 6, 2001.
What? Innovation, Competitiveness & Prosperity: Corporate Performance and the Prosperity of Nations As part of his visit from December 4 - 7, Martin will meet with Hong Kong business leaders and Rotman alumni. He will also join in other events for the University of Toronto with U of T President Robert J. Birgeneau and Jon S. Dellandrea, Vice-President and Chief Advancement Officer, and President, The University of Toronto (Hong Kong) Foundation. Roger Martin began his seven-year term as Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management in 1998. He received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics in 1979, and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. Much of his earlier career was spent with the Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts with offices worldwide. He joined the company in 1985 and two years later founded its Toronto office. He was named to the firm's global executive committee in 1991, and a year later returned to Monitor's head office. He served as Co-Head of the company in 1995 and 1996. He was founding Chairman of Monitor University, the company's educational arm. He is Chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. He is a Director on the Boards of Thomson Corporation, Celestica Inc., the Ontario SuperBuild Corporation and the Canadian Film Centre. He is also a Trustee of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Recently ranked by Business Week in the top-tier of business schools in the world, the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management offers leading-edge research and degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, the undergraduate Commerce program in partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Science, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing, and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers. For more information on the Rotman School, please visit the Rotman School’s web page at www.rotman.utoronto.ca.
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Ken McGuffin
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