Bruce Kogut
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Management
BA, Berkeley, 1975; MIA, Columbia University, 1978; PhD, MIT, 1983
Joined CBS in 2007
Office:
927
Kravis
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches courses on Governance, Governance and Ethics, and Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems. He has taught in executive programs in the US, Europe, and China.
His current research focuses on governance and corporate compensation, social capital markets and social metrics, and the application of machine learning to the study of solving social problems. His work has led to publications in 538 on political slant in economic research, proposals to set gender mandates for boards by estimating tipping points, as well as on the use of structured finance for charitable giving to release value in the portfolio. In cooperation with IFMR in Chennai, colleagues and he completed a study on the prosocial attitudes of employees and incentives on the productivity of microfinance institutions. Most recently, colleagues and he completed research on machine-human learning using a video game setting, and he is working with NervTech and the University of Ljubljana on machine-human interactions in the autonomous driving vehicle simulators.
His research is wildly cited and has been published in leading journals in economics, management, sociology, and computer science. His most recent book is The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance, published by MIT Press in 2012. A collection of his past articles on real options and foreign investment and knowledge of the firm was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 under the title Knowledge, Options, and Institutions. He is currently writing a book on Power and Governance in Revolutionary Times. He has two entries in the IMDb.
He has been a member of the academic advisory board to the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and is or has been a director in corporate and academic boards in Europe, Russia, and India. He received his PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has been an academic visitor at several research institutes, including Science Center Berlin (where he was the Karl Deutsch Professor), Ecole Polytechnique, Santa Fe Institute, SMU in Singapore, and Tsinghua University.
He directed the strategy and emerging-economy research centers and was the associate vice dean for the PhD program at Wharton and was the founder of the social entrepreneurship program at INSEAD. At Columbia University, he collaborated with Cambridge University to co-direct the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program that identified and trained social entrepreneurs with an interest in fostering a culture of mutual respect and dialogue among Jewish and Muslim communities.
In 2012-2013, he was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and was a member of its external board. He is currently on the academic advisory board to the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and to Columbia University’s Global Center in Paris and Reid Hall.
Teaching
Spring 2022
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems
(MBA)
Fundamentals of Governance
(EMBA)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods
(PHD)
Spring 2021
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Summer 2021
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Spring 2020
NYC Immersion Seminar: Governance and Ethical Choices
(MBA)
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods
(PHD)
Summer 2020
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems
(MBA)
Spring 2019
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy?
(MBA)
NYC Immersion Seminar: Governance and Ethical Choices
(MBA)
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Business Strategies for Solving Social Problems
(MBA)
Summer 2019
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Fall 2019
Global Immersion: Possible Futures for South Africa
(MBA)
Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems
(MBA)
Spring 2018
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy?
(MBA)
(PHD) Strategy
(PHD)
NYC Immersion Seminar: Governance and Ethical Choices
(MBA)
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods
(PHD)
Summer 2018
Columbia Caseworks cases
What Drives Musk? Making the Most of Markets and States
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua
Chancellor Angela Merkel, McKinsey, and 1.1 Million Refugees
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua
The Uber Board Deliberates: Is Good Governance Worth the Firing of an Entrepreneurial Founder?
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Etsy: Social Values and Financial Discipline
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
BlocPower: Energizing Urban Neighborhoods
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, John Walker
Apple Inc. in 2020: Vision and Strategy
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jerry Kim
The Foundations to the Individual, Business, and Society Curriculum Teaching Note
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Raymond Fisman, Michael Keehner, Bruce Kogut, Katherine Phillips
GM Strategy, Scope, and the Question of Captive Finance for the New General Motors
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Trevor Harris, Bruce Kogut
Diversification and Corporate Scope
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut
A Revolution in Compensation at Investment Banks? Credit Suisse and Its Competitors in 2010
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
General Motors 2.0: What Happened? What's Next?
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut
Eli Lilly and Company’s CSR Dilemma
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut
Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Research
Journal articles
Financial Innovation and Social Capital Markets
In Harvard Business Review
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Nalin Kulatilaka
Structural Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Mandated Quotas for Women Directors
In Strategic Management Journal
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jordi Colomer
Memory and Organizational Evolvability in a Neutral Landscape
In Organization Science
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Amit Jain
The Mobility of Economists and the Diffusion of Policy Ideas: The Influence of Economics on National Policies
In Research Policy
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Muir Macpherson
Books
The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Knowledge, Options, and Institutions
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy
(2003)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Peter Cornelius
The Global Internet Economy
(2003)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Redesigning the Firm
(1995)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Edward Bowman
Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work
(1993)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Globalization of Firms and the Competitiveness of Nations
(1991)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Chapters
Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures
In Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems, and Innovation
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data
In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Web-only articles
Bail Out credit Markets, Not Auto Industry Managers
In Forbes.com
(2008)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Working papers
Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Assessing Possible Worlds of Mandated Quotas
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinsky, Jordi Colomer
Executive Compensation, Fat Cats and Best Athletes
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut, Jae-Suk Yang
Did Executive Compensation Encourage Extreme Risk-taking in Financial Institutions?
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Hitesh Harnal
Forming Syndications among Venture Capital Firms
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Tom Snijders, Jordi Colomer
Generating Rules and Network Dynamics: Identifying the Mechanisms of Venture Capital Syndication
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinsky, Pietro Urso, Jordi Colomer
Red Queen Dynamics and Organizational Design: Does Convergence in Performance Lead to Convergence in Form?
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, John Paul MacDuffie, Frits Pil, Charles Ragin
Organizational Performance and Evolvability
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Amit Jain
The Origins and Diffusion of High Executive Pay
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jae-Suk Yang
The Probability of Default, Excessive Risk, and Executive Compensation: A Study of Financial Services Firms from 1995 to 2008
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Hitesh Harnal
Case studies
General Motors 2.0 What Happened? What's Next?
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jerry Kim
A Revolution in Compensation at Investment Banks? Credit Suisse and its Competitors in 2010
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Apple, Inc., in 2009: Seeking Sustained Corporate Growth
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
Eli Lilly: A Strategy for Developing Companies
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jerry Kim
Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
Business Leaders See a Split Congress as Reason to Celebrate
College Admissions Scandal's 'Moral Disgust Factor' Could Cost Parents Their Jobs
USA TODAY’s False Trump Op-Ed Raises Questions about Their Journalistic Integrity
Men and Women in Economics Have Different Opinions
A Lesson from the Opioid Crisis
Press Releases
Magazine articles
How Social Entrepreneurs Heal the World's Wounds
In Forbes
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Kamel Jedidi, Bruce Kogut
How to Prepare for Financial Meltdowns
In Forbes.com
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos