BCG Henderson Institute

Mihnea Moldoveanu

Professor and Vice Dean of Learning and Innovation at Rotman School of Management

Education

  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Decisions and Negotiations, Harvard Business School
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Psychology, Harvard University
  • Doctor of Business Administration, Decision Science, Harvard Business School
  • SM, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • SB, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Mihnea Moldoveanu

Professor and Vice Dean of Learning and Innovation at Rotman School of Management

Mihnea Moldoveanu is the Director of Desaultels Centre for Integrative Thinking and the Marcel Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking. He also is the Director of Rotman Digital. He has enjoyed parallel careers as an entrepreneur and academic. He joined Rotman in 1999 and jointly developed the concept of Integrative Thinking with Dean Roger Martin. His books include The Future of the MBA, co-authored with Roger Martin. Mihnea is the founder of Redline Communications, Inc., a leading manufacturer of wireless broadband telecommunications equipment. In 2008, he received Canada’s “Top 40 Under 40” award.

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Harvard Business Review | December 11, 2024

The Irreplaceable Value of Human Decision-Making in the Age of AI

The rise of AI presents an opportunity for humans to step up to the challenge of refining, emphasizing, and applying our own human strengths to differentiate corporate decision-making. However, human capabilities, like making moral judgments, and using imagination or intuition, are often untrained, impulsive, or implicit. Thus, to distinguish and elevate their decision-making processes, organizations need to actively codify and foster the requisite human decision-making skills. This article outline five imperatives towards this end.

BCG Henderson Institute | April 17, 2024

Building a Smarter Clock for Business: Time Management Is Not Just about Speed

Leaders must learn to vary the tempo in a dynamic context, manage rhythm and synchronization in an interconnected world, and embrace adaptive rules and structures when confronted with pressure across multiple timescales.

Harvard Business Review | September 26, 2023

The Strategic Benefits of Randomized Decision-Making

In highly ambiguous and challenging contexts, a random approach to decision-making confers a number of advantages.

Harvard Business Review | May 31, 2023

Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger

In a volatile, uncertain world, successful strategies are those conceived as portfolios of options rather than as roadmaps. Here's how to create and communicate such strategies.

Harvard Business Review | April 10, 2023

Radical Optionality

The next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints, companies must become even better and more efficient at developing options for future advantage while continuing to perform in the present.

Scientific American | March 2, 2018

Quantum Epistemology for Business

We need to reinvent the measurement tools we use to understand organizations, and quantum mechanics provides a promising basis to achieve this.