Karl Moore
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
CEO Leadership, Strategy, Introverts/Ambiverts/Extroverts As Leaders
Dr. Karl Moore joined McGill's Faculty of Management in autumn 2000, where he teaches graduate courses in strategy and leadership.听 He has taught extensively in executive education and MBA programs with leading universities including: Oxford, Stanford, LBS,听 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.听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.听
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 Sa茂d Business School.听 An experienced senior corporate manager prior to joining academia, Dr. Moore worked 12 years in听sales and marketing management positions in the high tech industry with听 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听Principal's Prize for Public Engagement through the Media which is a lifetime award.听听
Dr. Moore's publications include 28听refereed journal articles, 10 books or edited volumes, 14 chapters in books, 31 executive articles and dozens of conference papers. His research has received +4,200 Google Scholar citations. His research has been published in a number of leading journals including听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听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听from 2012 to 2016. Karl is a Past听Division Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management.听 Karl was elected to an M.A. (Oxon) in 1995.
His current research is on Generation Z 听and Introvert/Ambivert/Extrovert Leaders. His latest book 听IGeneration Why : How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z听 came out in May 2023听from the McGill/Queens Press. 听His next book, his 11th,听 We Are听 All听 Ambiverts Now should be out in 2024, it is planned to be published by the Stanford University Press. 听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听weekly video cast for The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper,听where he interviewed听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: . In spring 2014 he started a radio show, The CEO Series on听 Bell Media stations across Canada where he interviews a CEO for an hour, he has done over 500 interviews including with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,听 Montreal Canadiens CEO Geoff Molson, Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare and Quiet Author Susan Cain. The show website is听听 Many of the interviews are featured as weekly articles in Forbes.com 听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,听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听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鈥檚 greatest business thinkers. Others on the list of about 20 include Charles Handy, Phillip Kotler, Gary Hamel, Warren Bennis and Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
Quiet Leaders,听 Ambivert Leaders, Generation Z, CEO Leadership
Strategy, CEO Leadership, Introverted/Ambiverted Leadership, Generation Z听
Four doctoral students Oxford
Sat or sit on the committees of four doctoral students at McGill
supervised over a two dozen MBA students for McGill MBA Japan
supervised numerous masters thesis at McGill
sat on two doctoral committees at McGill听
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Oxford University, Cambridge University and on executive/MBA programs at Stanford, Harvard, LBS, INSEAD, IMD, etc.听
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Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Moore, Karl, "We are All Ambiverts Now.鈥� Duke University Dialogue Magazine, March 2021
Colantuoni, Fran, Rajbhandari, Shaibyaa Toulub, Gila, Diome-Deer, Wahi and Moore, Karl, "A Fresh Look at Paternity Leave: Why the Benefits Extend Beyond the Personal," McKinsey Publication, March 2021.
Moore, Karl, "Can Introverts Thrive in 鈥淓xtroverted鈥� Careers?", Harvard Business Review, January 2021
Moore, Karl and Kat Garcia and Marie Labrosse, "How Can Introverts and Extroverts Work in Isolation", Wharton Leadership Digest, April-May 2020
Moore, Karl, "Five Types of Introvert Breaks," Wharton Leadership Digest, Summer Issue 2019
Reid, Susan, Deborah Roberts and Karl Moore, 鈥淭he Impact of Technology Vision on Early Success: The Case for Radically New, High-Tech Products鈥�,听 Journal of Product Innovation Management,听 Vol. 32, Issue 4, 2015 pages听593-609.听Moore, Karl, "The life and times of a senior scholar: an interview with Lotte Bailyn,"听 The Journal of Management History, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2015, pages 388-393.
Moore, Karl, "The life and times of a senior scholar: an interview with Denise Rousseau," The听Journal of Management History, September 2015
Moore, Karl, "The life and times of a senior scholar: an interview with Lyman Porter," The Journal of Management History, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2015, pages 8-14.
Reid, S. E., Roberts, D. and Moore, K., "Technology Vision for Radical Innovation and Its Impact on Early Success", Journal of Product Innovation Management, November 2014.
oore, Karl, 鈥淎 Senior Scholar Interview with Arthur Bedian,鈥� The Journal of Management History, Volume 20, Issue 4, 2014, pages 347-351.
Moore, Karl, 鈥淎 Senior Scholar Interview with Kathryn Harrigan,鈥� The Journal of Management History, Volume 20, Issue 3, 2014, pages 333-338.
Moore, Karl, 鈥�A Senior Scholar Interview with Michigan鈥檚 Jane Dutton,鈥� The听 Journal of Management History, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2014, pages 140-144.
Moore, Karl, 鈥淎 Senior Scholar Interview with Harvard鈥檚 Joseph Bower,鈥� The Journal of Management History, Volume 17, Issue 3, 2011, pages 249-253.
Gopaul, Ishana and Karl Moore, 鈥淢anaging the Postmodern Generation: New Perspectives by Exploring the Parallelism between Postmodern Management and Music,鈥� The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management., Volume 10, 2010, December 2010.
Moore, Karl 鈥淕lobalization and the Cold War,鈥� Management & Organizational History, Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 2010, pages 5-17.
Moore, Karl and Susan Reid, 鈥淭he Birth of Brand,鈥� Business History, Vol. 50, Number 4, 2008, pages 419-432.
Borsuk, Daniel, Karl Moore, Grace Tan and Teanoosh Hosseinzadeh, "Replantation surgery in Quebec: The bottlenecks to rapid care,鈥� Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery, Volume 14, Number 3, Autumn 2006, pages 155-163.
Moore, Karl, Salem Razack, Hema Patel, Linda Snell and Laurel Taylor, 鈥淢anagement and Leadership Development Programs for the Medical Community at McGill University,鈥� McGill Journal of Medicine, Volume 9, Number 1, 2006, pages 74-77.
Razack, Salem, Hema Patel, Linda Snell, Laurel Taylor and Karl Moore ,鈥淭he MD-Lead Study of Manager Role Training For Senior Residents: Evidence of Effectiveness From A Single-blind, Randomized, Controlled Trail,鈥� Clinical and Investigative Medicine, abstract.
Gagnon, Sylvie, Monique Caron-Bouchard, Lise Renaud, Marie-Claude Lagac茅, Laurette Dub茅, Danielle Maisonneuve, Lyne Mongeau, Karl Moore, and Louise Getty, 鈥淐ontribution des contenus t茅l茅visuels dans la formation de normes associ茅es 脿 la pratique d'activit茅s physiques 脿 l'adolescence. Quels messages pour quels jeunes?鈥� Canadian Journal of Public Health, Winter, pages 58-65.
Moore, Karl, 鈥淭he First Era of Globalization: 鈥淜now World鈥� Globalization in the Time of the Roman Empire,鈥� AIB Insights, Spring 2005.
Worren, Nicolay, Karl Moore and Pablo Cardona, 鈥淢odularity, Strategic Flexibility and Firm Performance: A Study of the Home Appliances Industry,鈥� Strategic Management Journal, 23: 1123-1140. (Impact factor 3.92, ranked second among management journals)
Worren, Nicolay, Karl Moore and Richard Elliot, 鈥淲hen Theories become Tools: Toward a Framework for Pragmatic Validity,鈥� Human Relations, 55 (10): 1227-1250. (Impact factor 1.04)
Moore, Karl, 鈥淎 Strategy for Subsidiaries: Centres of Excellence to Build Subsidiary Specific Advantages,鈥� Management International Review, Third Quarter, 275-290. (MIR is not ranked by JCR, but is on the Financial Times list of 40 most influential management journals)
Worren, Nicolay, Keith Ruddle and Karl Moore, 鈥淎 Response to Criticism of From Organizational Development to Change Management: The Emergence Of A New Profession,鈥� Journal of Applied Behavioural Science, 36, 3, September: 376-379.
Books and Edited Volumes
2023 Moore, Karl We Are All Ambiverts Now, Stanford University Press, forthcoming.听
2022 Moore, Karl Ok Boomers:听 Working with Millennials and Generation Z, published by McGill Queens University Press.
2016: Witzel, Morgen and Karl Moore. Historical and Multicultural Perspectives on Leadership. To be published by Wiley/Blackwell.
2009: Moore, Karl and Niketh Pareek. Marketing. London: Routledge. Second edition with new chapters on web marketing, podcasts and videocasts.
2009: Moore, Karl and David Lewis. Origins of Globalization. London & New York: Routledge.
2009: Moore, Karl and Louis Hebert. Strategy and Globalization: The Underlying Principles. A Four Volume Series. London: Sage, January, 2009.
2006: Moore, Karl and Niketh Pareek. Marketing. London: Routledge, 269 pages, published May, 2006. According to The Business Executive, a monthly business newspaper published for the Southern Ontario and Metro Toronto region, Karl and Niketh Pareek鈥檚 Book, Marketing was the 8th in a list of 10 business best sellers in October 2007.
2001: Moore, Karl and David Lewis, 2001. Foundations of Corporate Empire. London: Financial Times/Prentice Hall Publishing. 319 pp. Reviewed in the Report of Business Magazine, The National Post, The Australian Financial Review, Montreal Gazette, etc..
1999: Moore, Karl and David Lewis, 1999. Birth of the Multinational: 2000 Years of Ancient Business History 鈥� from Ashur to Augustus. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press. 341 pp. With a foreword by Professor John Dunning. Reviewed in JIBS (impact factor 1.460), the Journal of Economic Literature (impact factor 4.312, number one journal in economics), The Economic Journal (impact factor 1.134), Transnational Corporations, International Business Review, Management Learning, the Asia Pacific Journal of Systems Management and the Times Literary Supplement.
1998: Coveney, Patrick and Karl Moore, 1998. Business Angels: Securing Start up Finance. London: John Wiley and Sons.
Chapters in Books
2022: Moore, Karl and Laruen Kirigin, "Generation Z and the COVID Crisis", Leadership in Crisis, Routledge, editor Morgan Witzel.
2017 Moore, Karl "Management in Antiquity, Oxford Bibliographies in Management, Oxford University Press, revised entry.听听
2012: Moore, Karl, 鈥淢anagement in Antiquity鈥�, Oxford Bibliographies in Management, Oxford University Press.
2012: Moore, Karl, 鈥淪trategies for Change鈥� In Eric Kessler, the Encyclopedia of Management Theory, Sage.
2012: Moore, Karl, and Alexandra Klein 鈥淛ohn Kotter.鈥� In Morgen Witzel, the Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, Oxford University Press.
2010: Moore, Karl, 鈥淓lements in Fighting Obesity.鈥� In L. Dub茅, A. Bechara, A. Dagher, A. Drewnowski, J. LeBel, P. James, & R. Y. Yada (eds) (2010) Obesity Prevention: The Role of Brain and Society on Individual Behavior. New York, NY: Elsevier, Inc.
2010: Chen, Xioye, Moore, Karl and Lisa Renaud, 鈥淧artnerships in Fighting Obesity.鈥� In L. Dub茅, A. Bechara, A. Dagher, A. Drewnowski, J. LeBel, P. James, & R. Y. Yada (eds) (2010) Obesity Prevention: The Role of Brain and Society on Individual Behavior. New York, NY: Elsevier, Inc, pp. 661-671.
2008: Moore, Karl, 鈥淭he Transcultural Manager.鈥� In Karl Moore and Louis Hebert (editors), Contemporary Issues in Business and Globalization. London: Sage, forthcoming November 2008.
2008: Moore, Karl and Julian Birkinshaw, 鈥淐entres of Excellence in Global Service Firms.鈥� In Karl Moore and Louis Hebert (editors), Contemporary Issues in Business and Globalization. London: Sage, forthcoming November 2008.
2008: Moore, Karl, 鈥淭he Transcultural Manager.鈥� In G.P Sudhakar and Sumati Reddy (editors) The Global Manager. Hyderabad: Icfai University Press, pp. 22-29.
2008: Chen, Xioye, Karl Moore, Lise Renaud and Laurette Dube, 鈥淔rom Corporate Social Responsibility of Social Alliances: A Case of Childhood Obesity Prevention.鈥� In Lise Renaud (editor), Les Medias et le Faconnement des Normes En Matiere de Sante. Montreal : Presses de L鈥橴niversite du Quebec.
2004: Moore, Karl, 鈥淕reat Global Managers.鈥� In Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove (eds) Financial Times Handbook of Management. London: Financial Times.
2000: Moore, Karl, 鈥淛ohn H. Dunning.鈥� In Morgen Witzel, Biographical Dictionary of Management. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press.
2001: Moore, Karl and Keith Ruddle, 鈥淥rganising For E-Commerce in MNE鈥檚.鈥� In Leslie Willcocks and Chris Sauer (eds.) Moving to E-Business: 99- 123. London: Random House.
1999: Moore, Karl, "Centres of Excellence and Competence Development of the MNC: The Emergence of Subsidiary Specific Advantages.鈥� In Ulf Holm and Torben Pedersen (eds.) Centres of Excellence in MNCs, London: MacMillan.
1998: Moore, Karl, 鈥淭hinking Beyond Borders: Strategies for Subsidiaries in a Global Business World.鈥� In George Bickerstaffe (ed) Mastering Global Business, London: FT/Pitman Publishing: 125-130.
1997: Worren, Nicolay, Karl Moore and Peter Collett, 鈥淲hen Theories Become Tools: The Pragmatic Validity of Conceptual Models.鈥� In Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, and the Firm. St.
Andrews: University of St. Andrews.
1997: Worren, Nicolay, Keith Ruddle and Karl Moore, 鈥淔rom Organizational Development to Change Management: The Emergence of a New Global Profession.鈥� In Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, and the Firm. St. Andrews: University of St. Andrews.
1997: Moore, Karl and Roger Heeler, 鈥淎 Competency Based View of the Subsidiary.鈥� In Peter Buckley and J.L. Mucchielli (eds.) Globalization and Regionalization in International Trade.
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Awards
2022 Dean鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Media and Public Engagement (inaugural)
2021听Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)听One Expert, Unlimited Audiences: A Global, Branded Webinar Series: A budget-friendly webinar series hosted by Professor Karl Moore topped the听Alumni Engagement on a Shoestring听category
2017听Principal's Prize for Public Engagement through the Media,听Outstanding Achievement.听
2012: Faculty Award for Excellence in Alumni Activities, McGill Alumni Association.
2012: Gold Medal in 鈥淏est Use of Social Media鈥� category for Hot Cities India, 2012 Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) Prix d'Excellence.
2002: McGill Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award, McGill University.
2001: One of the Best Books This Year, Across the Board.
1999: Book of the Year, CBS Press.
1998: Runner-up for Best Paper, Academy of Management Executive.
1998: Runner-up for Best Paper, EGOS Conference.
1997: Best Paper, ICAM Conference.
1995: Honourary masters degree, Oxford University.
Fellowships
2006: Senior Fellow, Canada School of Public Service.
1990-1992: Research Fellowship, York University
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Over three thousand press interviews.
I also have written over 500 columns for the Globe and Mail, Sinc 2020 a biweekly column, Indigenous Leaders for the Globe and Mail with an Indigenous Graduate student.听 For nine years, I did a weekly column video interview for the Globe where I interviewed CEOs and the world's top business professors. Did a CEO interview column for the National Post for plus 2.5 years.听
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And about my work on Introverts in the C-Suite at听 the Globe and Mail, Canada鈥檚 National Newspaper:
My research on Introverted Leaders discussed in The Economist in the Schumpeter Column听 Read it at 听 and at the Wharton Leadership Digest听
A Financial Times interview about my research shadowing women leaders may be seen at:
Karl does a radio show on the Bell Media network across Canada where he interviews CEOs, one-on-one for an hour, to listen please go to听听our website:
2021
Susan Black, CEO Conference Board of Canada
Asheesh Advani, CEO Junior Achievement Worldwide
Adrian Wooldridge, Political Editor, The Economist
Peter Simons, CEO Maison Simons
Kat Tchernaskikh, Co-Founder Shott
Ola Kallenius, Global CEO Mercedes Benz
Tabatha Bull, CEO of the Aboriginal Business Council of Canada听
2020
Mirko Bibic, CEO Bell听
Fabienne Colas Founder Montreal, Toronto, New York City International Black Flim Festival听
Shundrawn Thomas CEO Northern Trust Asse Management
Zoe Yujnovich EVP Conventional Oil and Gas Shell
Alexandre Taillefer & J.F. Ouellet, Co-authors, Underneath The Failure of Teo Taxi
Major General Jennie Carignan, Commander, NATO Mission to Iraq
2016
Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister
Alain Bouchard, Founder of Couch Tarde
Dr. Joanne Liu, CEO of Doctors Without Borders
Patrick Pichette, former CFO Google
Alan Shepard, President Concordia University
Tony Tyler, CEO IATA
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Daniel Saks, Co-Founder of Unicorn, Direct App
Ken Dryden, Former Cabinet Minister
John Wood, Founder Room to Read
Isabelle Hudon and Martine Turcotte, Bell Media and Sun Life
Sugar Sammy
Michael Medline, CEO of Canadian Tire
Susan Cain,听 Author of NYT bestseller Quiet
Sue Paish, CEO of LIfeLabs
Katherine Barr, Partner at VC Mohr Davidow, Silicon Valley
JN Guillemette, GM Uber Quebec
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2015
Alain Bellemare, COE Bombardier
Justin Trudeau,23rd Prime Minister of Canada
Carlos Letiao, Minister of Finance, Quebec
Geoff Molson, CEO of the Montreal Canadiens
Peter Simmons, CEO Simmons
Lieutent听 General Christine Whitecross
Henry Mintzberg, Management Guru
Gregg听 Saretsky, CEO WestJet
听Heather Munroe-Blum, former Principal, McGill University
Lino Saputo, Saputo Cheese
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Mitch Joel, CEO Mirum
Mitch Garber, Chairman of the Board, Cirque du Soleil
Thierry Vandal, CEO Quebec Hydro
Pierre Boivin, CEO Claridge
Brian Featherstonehaugh, CEO Oglivy One
Melanie Joy, Minister of Heritage
Phillip Crawley, Publisher Globe and Mail
Hubert Lacroix CEO CBC
John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
David Segal, Co-Founder, David鈥檚 Tea
Rupert Duchense, CEO Aimia
Kathleen Weil, Minister of Justice, Quebec
Allan MacDonald, COO, Canadian Tire
Andy Nulman, Just for Laughs
Zoe Yujnovich, CEO IOC
Stephen Bronfman, Chairman, Claridge
Yona Shtern, CEO, Beyond the Rack
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Karl has given lectures at many of the world's leading universities including:听 Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, Oxford, Cambridge, LBS, Imperial College, RSM, the Technical University of Helsinki, Stockholm School of Economics, Renmin University, IMBangalore, the University of Hawaii, Keio University, University of Bangkok, University of Johannesburg, Dartmouth, Duke, Cornell, USC, Queens, SFU, UBC, Western University, Queens, York, University of Toronto, Laval, Bishop's,听 and HEC.
CEO Leadership,听 Introvert/Ambivert/Extorvert听Leaders听in the C-Suite
