Michael Stewart Scott Morton

Michael Stewart Scott Morton is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has most recently been involved with CMI, a joint venture between Cambridge University and MIT, funded by the UK's DTI. Scott Morton taught and did research at MIT in the areas of Corporate Strategy and the options opened up to businesses by the evolving communications and information technologies. He studied engineering at Glasgow University before moving to the USA and completing his undergraduate education at Carnegie Mellon University. After working in the computer field, he obtained his doctorate at the Harvard Business School. Scott Morton joined the faculty of MIT in 1966, initially in the fields of Accounting and Control Systems. His early work formed the basis of what became known as Decision Support Systems: the use by managers of interactive computer systems to support their decision-making. Scott Morton served as group head of the Information Systems area at MIT Sloan and was instrumental in the founding of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). From 1976-1981 he served as the Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan and in 1981 began researching and teaching in the area of Corporate Strategy. In 1983 he became area head of the Strategy Group. In 1984 he initiated a joint research program with 10 corporations in the UK and US on Management in the 1990s; this resulted in two books published by Oxford University Press. In 1992 Scott Morton became the area head for the Behavioral Policy Sciences Group. From 1995-1999 he was the codirector of a school-wide research initiative, Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century (The MIT Press). He has authored or coauthored 8 books and numerous articles.