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Robert Pozen

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies at Brookings Institution

Senior Lecturer at Sloan School of Management

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  • Sloan School of Management
  • Brookings Institution

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Brookings Institution

Robert C. Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 2012, he won acclaim for a popular book entitled Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours.

In 2004, Bob became the executive chairman of MFS Investment Management, which now manages over $400 billion for mutual funds and pension plans. Between 2004 and 2011, MFS’s assets under management nearly tripled from a base of $130 billion.

During his distinguished career, Bob has been active in business, government and academia. Prior to joining MFS, he was vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management & Research Company. During Bob’s five years as president, Fidelity’s assets increased from $500 billion to $900 billion.

In late 2001 and 2002, Bob served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, where he developed a progressive plan to make the system solvent. In 2003, Bob served as Secretary of Economic Affairs for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In 2007, he served as chairman of the SEC's Committee to Improve Financial Reporting.

Bob is currently an independent director of Nielsen and AMC (a subsidiary of the World Bank). He also serves as Chairman of the Leadership Council of the Tax Policy Center, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Agility (an outsourced CIO ) and a Senior Advisor to the consulting firm of Oliver Wyman.

Bob frequently writes articles for the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. He has published a book on the recent financial crisis, Too Big To Save? How to Fix the US Financial System, and a guide for investors entitled The Fund Industry: How Your Money is Managed.

Bob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and holds a law degree from Yale Law School, where he also obtained a doctorate for a book on state enterprises in Africa. He lives in Boston with his wife of over 40 years.

EDUCATION

  • J.S.D., Yale
  • J.D., Yale Law School
  • Harvard College (summa cum laude)

Sloan School of Management

Robert Pozen is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. 

He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.  He has extensive experience in business, government and journalism. 

Bob was executive chairman of MFS Investment Management from 2004 to 2011; during this period, the assets of MFS more than doubled from a starting point of $130 billion.

From 1987 through 2001, he served in various positions at Fidelity Investment. During his tenure as President of Fidelity Management and Research, from 1997 thru 2001, the assets of the Fidelity Funds rose from $500 billlion to $900 billion. 

Bob served as Associate General Counsel of the SEC in the late 1970s, and Chairman of the SEC's Advisory Committee on Financial Reporting in 2007-2008.   He was a member of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, and served as Secretary of Economic Affairs under Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

Bob has taught at Georgetown and NYU as well as Harvard and MIT.  He has published seven books, mainly on financial issues. His latest book, Extreme Productivity:  Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, was #3 on Fast Company’s  list of best  business books for 2012 by.  In addition, he often writes editorials for the Financial Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

Bob is an outside director of Medtronic, Nielsen, and AMC ( a second-tier subsidiary of the World Bank ).  He is also on the governing board of several non-profit organizations including the Commonwealth Fund and the Harvard Neuro-Discovery Center.  He received the 2011 Fund Action Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in the mutual fund industry.

 Bob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, and obtained a law degree from Yale Law School where he was a member of the editorial board of the Yale Law Journal.  He also received a doctorate from Yale Law School for a book he wrote on state enterprises in Africa.

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Courses Taught

Maximizing Your Personal Productivity: How to Become an Efficient and Effective Executive


Sloan School of Management


Online


Global Executive Academy (multi-language)


Sloan School of Management


Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States


Jul 9

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