Biosketch

Dr. Moreton has been with the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis since 1999. From 1999 to 2004, he taught strategy in the Olin School’s full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs. He is a five time recipient of the Reid Teaching Award given by MBA students to the faculty member they believe has contributed most to their education and professional development. Since June of 2004 he has been the managing director and an adjunct faculty member in the Washington University-Fudan University Executive MBA program, a joint educational venture between Washington University in St. Louis and Fudan University in Shanghai, China. In December 2004, he was promoted to Assistant Dean and now also has responsibility for developing Washington University’s non-degree short course programming in Greater Asia.

After completing his undergraduate studies with a double major in Biochemistry and Economics, Professor Moreton worked as a management consultant for 6 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, the highest honor awarded to graduating MBA students. 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. His doctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley focused on competition and pricing in the wireless communications industry. He continues to write, lecture, and teach regularly in the area of business strategy and is particularly interested in the role that human resources plays in firms’ efforts to gain and sustain competitive advantage. He currently lives with his partner, the artist Christina Shmigel, in Shanghai.