Karl Moore

Dr. Karl Moore joined McGill's Faculty of Management in autumn 2000, where he teaches graduate courses in strategy and leadership. He has taught extensively in executive education and MBA programs with leading universities including: Oxford, Stanford, LBS, Harvard Business School, Cambridge, IMD, Darden, Renmin (Bejing), Cornell, INSEAD, Duke, the Drucker School, the Rotterdam School of Management, IIM Bangalore, Queen's and McGill. He was recently nominated for the 2017 Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in the Leadership Category as a top thinker in the area for his work on introverts/extroverts in the C-Suite & Millennials. Seven other nominees included faculty from Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Penn and Dartmouth.

He was on the faculty of Oxford University for 5 years from 1995-2000 where he taught executive education at Green Templeton College, and on the MBA and doctoral programs at the Saïd Business School. An experienced senior corporate manager prior to joining academia, Dr. Moore worked 12 years in sales and marketing management positions in the high tech industry with IBM, Bull and Hitachi. He is a cycle director for the Advanced Leadership Program, a program chaired by Henry Mintzberg. He also works with Henry as a module director on the International Masters for Health Leadership and the IMPM. In 2002 he won the Faculty teaching award at the MBA level. In 2014 he won the Professor of the Year award from the McGill alumni association and in 2017 the Principal's Prize for Public Engagement through the Media which is a lifetime award.

Dr. Moore's publications include 28 refereed journal articles, 10 books or edited volumes, 14 chapters in books, 31 executive articles and dozens of conference papers. His research has received +3,500 Google Scholar citations. His research has been published in a number of leading journals including SMJ, JIBS, Human Relations, Management International Review, Business History, Marketing Management, World Business, Across the Board, Leader to Leader, Strategy + Business, European Business Forum, Chief Executive, The Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, Policy Options, Marketing Research and the Journal of Brand Management. He is on the editorial boards of Management International Review and the Journal of Management History. He was an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives from 2012 to 2016. Karl is a Past Division Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management. Karl was elected to an M.A. (Oxon) in 1995.

His current research is on Generation Z and Introvert/Ambivert/Extrovert Leaders. His next book is It’s OK, Boomer: How to Effectively Work with Millennials/Generation Z out in Fall 2021 from the McGill/Queens Press. His next book, his 11th, We Are Ambiverts Now should be out in 2022, it is planned to be published by the Stanford University Press. On the history side of globalization and international business, he and co-author historian David Lewis have published articles in Business History and the Management International Review on international business in the ancient world. Their latest book, "Origins of Globalization" was published by Routledge in April 2009. It has received worldwide press attention.

From 2007-2016, Karl did a weekly video cast for The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper, where he interviewed CEOs one week and leading business professors from the top universities in the world. In March 2011 he started a weekly blog, Rethinking Leadership, for Forbes, it can be read at: http://blogs.forbes.com/karlmoore/. In spring 2014 he started a radio show, The CEO Series on CJAD where he interviews a CEO for an hour, he has done over 30 interviews including with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Montreal Canadiens CEO Geoff Molson, Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare and Quiet Author Susan Cain. The show website is https://soundcloud.com/cjad800/sets/the-ceo-series Many of the interviews are featured as weekly articles in The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper and French in Les Affaires.

He has been a consultant to leading global firms including Nokia, Air Canada, Lufthansa, British Airways, IBM, HP, Shell, Volvo, Accenture, Lilly, Pfizer and Regis McKenna. Articles on his research and op-ed pieces written by him have appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Independent, the Guardian, Les Echoes, the Australian Financial Review, Het Financielle Dagblad, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, La Presse, the Montreal Gazette, and other leading papers. He is a regular guest in the media and appears on CNN, BBC, CBC, CTV and Global Television, Karl has given over 3500 press interviews in his career. The winter 2006 issue of Business Strategy Review, published by the London Business School, identified Karl among a group of world’s greatest business thinkers. Others on the list of about 20 include Charles Handy, Phillip Kotler, Gary Hamel, Warren Bennis and Rosabeth Moss Kanter.

Degree(s):

• PhD, Strategy and Leadership, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada
• MA, Oxford University, honoury degree
• MBA, Managerial Decision Systems, University of Southern California, LA, USA
• BSc, Business, Ambassador University, USA