Bruce Kogut
Director
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics
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:
706
Uris
Phone:
212-854-9050
E-mail:
bk2263@gsb.columbia.edu
Fax:
212-854-3778
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Bruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Director of the Sanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches the core courses in strategy and in governance and an elective on "The Future of Finance" for the MBAs and EMBA and 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 'political color of boards,' financed by the National Science Foundation in the area of sociology and computational social science. In cooperation with IFMR in Chennai, colleagues and he are researching the contributions of prosocial attitudes of employees and incentives on the productivity of microfinance institutions. His research has more than 50,000 Google citations and has been published in leading journals in economics, management, and sociology.
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 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, 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 is currently a member of its external board.
Teaching
Summer 2018
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Spring 2018
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy?
(MBA)
NYC Immersion Seminar: Governance and Ethical Choices
(MBA)
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods
(PHD)
Summer 2017
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy?
(MBA)
Strategy Formulation
(EMBA)
Summer 2016
Fundamentals of Governance
(MBA)
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy?
(MBA)
Strategy Formulation
(EMBA)
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Strategy Formulation
(EMBA)
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy?
(MBA)
Fall 2013
Columbia Caseworks cases
BlocPower: Energizing Urban Neighborhoods
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, John Walker
Apple Inc. in 2015: Vision and Strategy
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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): 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
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
Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage
(2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
Men and Women in Economics Have Different Opinions
A Lesson from the Opioid Crisis
Why Haven't More Big-Company CEOs Been Exposed for Sexual Misconduct?
Why Someone Like the KB Home CEO Could Keep His Job after a Profane Outburst
A Closer Look at the Manufacturing Council Resignations Reveals Fascinating Moments in Leadership
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