Patrick Moreton

Dr. Moreton is a member of the strategy area at the WashU-Olin Business School and is responsible for overseeing the academic components of Global Immersion Semester of Olin’s Full-time MBA program. Before rejoining Olin in September 2017, Dr. Moreton was a professor of practice with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and part of the founding team for Duke Kunshan University, Duke University’s joint venture university in Kunshan China, where he held the position of Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Executive Education and Conference Center Programming. From 1999 to 2004, he taught strategy at Washington University’s Olin Business School in its BSBA program and full time and part-time, MBA programs. In 2004 he moved to Shanghai and worked as the managing director and Associate Dean of the Washington University-Fudan University Executive MBA program, a joint educational venture between Washington University in St. Louis and Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

After completing his undergraduate studies with a double major in Biochemistry and Economics, Dr. Moreton worked as a management consultant for six years in San Francisco and Boston, completing projects in commercial and retail banking, consumer products, and electric power generation. At Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration, he received his MBA degree and graduated as a Baker Scholar. He continued on at Harvard as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow and wrote more than a dozen Harvard Business School case studies in finance, business ethics, and business-government relations. He subsequently completed his doctoral studies in Business and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the past Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai’s Education & Training Committee and continues to write, lecture, and teach regularly in the area of business strategy, with a particular interested in the role that human capital plays in companies’ efforts to gain and sustain competitive advantage. He and his wife, the artist Christina Shmigel, have repatriated to the United States in 2017 after more than 13 years living in China. Dr. Moreton continues to run daily and with his wife, is enjoying exploring the abundant cultural opportunities available in St. Louis.

Back to Previous Page Patrick Moreton Patrick Moreton Dr. Moreton is a member of the strategy area at the WashU-Olin Business School and is responsible for overseeing the academic components of Global Immersion Semester of Olin’s Full-time MBA program. Before rejoining Olin in September 2017, Dr. Moreton was a professor of practice with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and part of the founding team for Duke Kunshan University, Duke University’s joint venture university in Kunshan China, where he held the position of Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Executive Education and Conference Center Programming. From 1999 to 2004, he taught strategy at Washington University’s Olin Business School in its BSBA program and full time and part-time, MBA programs. In 2004 he moved to Shanghai and worked as the managing director and Associate Dean of the Washington University-Fudan University Executive MBA program, a joint educational venture between Washington University in St. Louis and Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

After completing his undergraduate studies with a double major in Biochemistry and Economics, Dr. Moreton worked as a management consultant for six years in San Francisco and Boston, completing projects in commercial and retail banking, consumer products, and electric power generation. At Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration, he received his MBA degree and graduated as a Baker Scholar. He continued on at Harvard as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow and wrote more than a dozen Harvard Business School case studies in finance, business ethics, and business-government relations. He subsequently completed his doctoral studies in Business and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the past Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai’s Education & Training Committee and continues to write, lecture, and teach regularly in the area of business strategy, with a particular interested in the role that human capital plays in companies’ efforts to gain and sustain competitive advantage. He and his wife, the artist Christina Shmigel, have repatriated to the United States in 2017 after more than 13 years living in China. Dr. Moreton continues to run daily and with his wife, is enjoying exploring the abundant cultural opportunities available in St. Louis.

Area of Expertise:

Business/Corporate Strategy, East Asian Business, Entrepreneurship, International Business, Management Strategy

Research Interests:

The cognitive basis of learning, expertise acquisition, judgment development.

Awards/Honors:

• Reid Teaching Award (EMBA), Olin Business School, 2010
• Reid Teaching Award (PMBA), Olin Business School, 2005

Personal Interests:

Married, conversational Spanish, transactional Mandarin (spoken)