Dr. James F. Moore is a business theorist and strategist, an expert on science, technology, leadership and organization.

He is a subject expert on ai and cognitive technology, telecom, computing and semiconductors.

Dr. Moore introduced the theory of business ecosystems strategy-making into the management world. Moore emphasizes that businesses co-evolve in ecosystems with others and shape their shared futures.

He has consulted for top management of companies including AT&T, AT&T Bell Labs, HP, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM and Haier Group. He has consulted for investors AT&T Ventures, Intel Capital, GE Capital, and SoftBank.

Pro bono service has included governments, NGOs, the United Nations, the G8 Group of Nations, and academic/activist programs including the Harvard AIDS Initiative, the Harvard Population Center and the School of Public Health Program on Society & Health, and the MIT Sloan School Initiative on the Digital Economy.

He is a best-selling author whose book, The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems (Harper Business, New York), won multiple prizes, and is one of the most academically cited business books of all time. The book is available in multiple languages including English, German and Chinese.

His Harvard Business Review article, “Predators & Prey: A New Ecology of Competition” introduced the concept of a “business ecosystem” into the management world. The article won the McKInsey Award for article of the year. Along with the book The Death of Competition, the article is among the most influential works in management.

He is a “practitioner/scholar” who studies leadership in close day-to-day cooperation with executives and teams grappling with major challenges. He has been embedded in organizations for years at a time.

On the scholarship side, he maintains close collaboration with colleagues including at Tsinghua University in China. He is a research affiliate of the Dynamic Competition Initiative of the European University Institute, Florence, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.

He holds a doctorate in cognitive developmental psychology from Harvard, where he studied the psychology of adult development and the influence of communities, organizations and societies on human potential. He expanded on this work as a post/doctoral research fellow in organizations at Stanford, where he studied relationships among people and organizations in Silicon Valley.

His personal faith is central. People are creative, caring, meaning-seeking, with important spiritual experience. During his first thee years of graduate school at Harvard he lived and studied Christian theology, ministry and spiritual practice at the Episcopal Divinity School.

Photo at Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts