Dr. Moreton is the senior associate dean for graduate programs at the Olin School of business with overall responsibility for the school’s full-time MBA and Specialized Masters Programs, its part-time Professional and Executive MBA programs, as well as its non-degree training programs both in St. Louis and Washington DC, through the school’s joint venture with the Brookings Institution. Before joining 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 recently repatriated to the United States after more than 13 years living in China.