Meet 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 the Global Immersion courses in Olin’s Full-time MBA program. In addition to his work with the full-time MBA program, Dr. Moreton teaches corporate strategy, innovation, and international business courses in Olin’s St. Louis- and Shanghai-based Executive MBA programs.
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 commercial and retail banking, consumer products, and electric power generation projects. He earned his MBA at Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration and graduated as a Baker Scholar. He continued at Harvard as a Charles M. Williams Research Fellow. He wrote over 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. He continues to write, lecture, and teach regularly in business strategy, with a particular interest in the role that human capital plays in companies’ efforts to gain and sustain competitive advantage and how humans convert experience into skills and knowledge. He and his wife, the artist Christina Shmigel, repatriated to the United States in 2017 after more than 13 years of living full-time in China. Dr. Moreton continues to run daily, and he enjoys exploring the abundant cultural opportunities in St. Louis with his wife.