Bruce Kogut
Director at Columbia Business School
Biography
Columbia Business School
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
Spring 2018
Global Immersion: Is Cuba the Next Transition Economy? (MBA)
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
Spring 2012
Columbia Caseworks cases
BlocPower: Energizing Urban Neighborhoods (2017)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, John Walker
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Apple Inc. in 2015: Vision and Strategy ()
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jerry Kim
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The Foundations to the Individual, Business, and Society Curriculum Teaching Note (2013)
Coauthor(s): Raymond Fisman, Michael Keehner, Bruce Kogut, Katherine Phillips
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GM Strategy, Scope, and the Question of Captive Finance for the New General Motors (2011)
Coauthor(s): Trevor Harris, Bruce Kogut
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Diversification and Corporate Scope (2012)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut
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A Revolution in Compensation at Investment Banks? Credit Suisse and Its Competitors in 2010 (2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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General Motors 2.0: What Happened? What's Next? (2010)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut
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Eli Lilly and Company’s CSR Dilemma (2009)
Coauthor(s): Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut
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Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage (2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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Research
Journal articles
Financial Innovation and Social Capital Markets In Harvard Business Review (forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Nalin Kulatilaka
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Structural Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Mandated Quotas for Women Directors In Strategic Management Journal (2014)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jordi Colomer
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Memory and Organizational Evolvability in a Neutral Landscape In Organization Science (2013)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Amit Jain
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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
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Books
The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance (2012)
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Knowledge, Options, and Institutions (2008)
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Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy (2003)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Peter Cornelius
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The Global Internet Economy (2003)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Redesigning the Firm (1995)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Edward Bowman
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Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work (1993)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Globalization of Firms and the Competitiveness of Nations (1991)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Chapters
Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures In Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems, and Innovation (2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data In Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis (2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Web-only articles
Bail Out credit Markets, Not Auto Industry Managers In Forbes.com (2008)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Working papers
Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Assessing Possible Worlds of Mandated Quotas (2012)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinsky, Jordi Colomer
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Executive Compensation, Fat Cats and Best Athletes (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jae-Suk Yang
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Did Executive Compensation Encourage Extreme Risk-taking in Financial Institutions? (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Hitesh Harnal
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Forming Syndications among Venture Capital Firms (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Tom Snijders, Jordi Colomer
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Generating Rules and Network Dynamics: Identifying the Mechanisms of Venture Capital Syndication (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Mariano Belinsky, Pietro Urso, Jordi Colomer
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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
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Organizational Performance and Evolvability (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Amit Jain
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The Origins and Diffusion of High Executive Pay (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Jae-Suk Yang
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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
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Case studies
General Motors 2.0 What Happened? What''s Next? (2011)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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A Revolution in Compensation at Investment Banks? Credit Suisse and its Competitors in 2010 (2010)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Apple, Inc., in 2009: Seeking Sustained Corporate Growth (2009)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Eli Lilly: A Strategy for Developing Companies (2009)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut
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Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage (2009)
Coauthor(s): Stephan Meier, Bruce Kogut, Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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Ideas and Insights
Can Big Data Make Business More Ethical? (2016)
In The News
Media Mentions
Why Someone Like the KB Home CEO Could Keep His Job after a Profane Outburst
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MarketWatch
Magazine articles
How Social Entrepreneurs Heal the World''s Wounds In Forbes (2010)
Coauthor(s): Kamel Jedidi, Bruce Kogut
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How to Prepare for Financial Meltdowns In Forbes.com (2009)
Coauthor(s): Bruce Kogut, Patrick Bolton, Tano Santos
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Videos
Bernstein Debate: Welcome Remarks – Professor Bruce Kogut
Knowhow: Was Marx Right about Everything but the Happy Ending?
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