James F. Moore - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

James F. Moore studies co-evolution in social and economic systems. His recent work has focused on understanding the "economics of peace."

Moore was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

's Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Center for Internet & Society

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research center at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace. Founded at Harvard Law School, the center traditionally focused on internet-related legal issues. On May 15, 2008, the Center was elevated to an interfaculty initiative of...

from 2000 to 2004. He studied the interaction of law, technology and economic development in Africa.

Moore is on the Dean's Council of the Harvard School of Public Health

Harvard School of Public Health

The Harvard School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill, which is next to Harvard Medical School. HSPH is considered a significant school focusing on health in the...

and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Harvard AIDS Institute and the Harvard AIDS Initiative

Harvard AIDS Initiative

Since the late 1980s, the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS research, education and leadership....

Blogger

In the spring of 2003 Moore began blogging against the US invasion of Iraq and wrote The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head which imagines how citizens worldwide might someday join through Internet technology, engage international institutions, and help set global policy.

In the Winter of 2003, 2004 Moore was Director of Internet and Information Services for the Howard Dean

Howard Dean

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S...

campaign for US President.

In 2004 he co-founded the human rights blog Passion of the Present and blogged daily for more than a year to mobilize support for the people of Darfur

Darfur

Darfur is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into three federal states: West Darfur, South Darfur, and North Darfur...

, victims of genocide in Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

. He was instrumental in the early days of Save Darfur Coalition

Save Darfur Coalition

The Save Darfur Coalition is an advocacy group calling for international intervention in the Darfur genocide in the Eastern African state of Sudan...

, as well as the Genocide Intervention Network

Genocide Intervention Network

thumb|right|300px|Genocide Intervention Network logoThe Genocide Intervention Network is a non-profit organization that "envisions a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities...

Business Strategist

In an earlier career, Moore was a business strategist. He pioneered the term "business ecosystem

Business ecosystem

Starting in the early 1990s James F. Moore originated the strategic planning concept of a business ecosystem, now widely adopted in the high tech community...

" and has been central in developing an ecological approach

Ecological model of competition

The ecological model of competition is a reassessment of the nature of competition in the economy. Traditional economics models the economy on the principles of physics . This can be seen in the economics lexicon: terms like labour force, market equilibrium, capital flows, and price elasticity...

to business and economic strategy.

Early versions of this approach are presented in a Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...

article entitled "Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition" in May/June of 1993, as well as in a book
The Death of Competition: Leadership and Strategy in the Age of Business Ecosystems (HarperBusiness, 1996, ISBN 0-88730-850-3). A more recent treatment by Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...

faculty member Marco Iansiti

Marco Iansiti

Marco Iansiti is a professor at the Harvard Business School, whose primary research interest is technology and operations strategy and the management of innovation. He is the Director of Research and the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School...

and Roy Levien

Roy Levien

Roy Levien is an author, consultant and inventor, with six issued US patents and numerous US patent applications. He is currently a Managing Inventor at Ambient Architecture, an invention company and inventor at Intellectual Ventures where he participates in frequent "invention sessions" covering a...

, is their book The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability (Harvard Business School Press, 2004)http://www.keystone-advantage.com/.

Selected publications

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