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Bruce Kogut

Bruce Kogut
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Management Division
Competitive Strategy Affiliated Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Globalization Leadership & Organizational Behavior Strategy
Contact
Office: 927 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
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Curriculum Vitae

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.

Education
BA, Berkeley, 1975; MIA, Columbia University, 1978; PhD, MIT, 1983
Joined CBS
2007

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Type
Journal Article
Kogut, Bruce and Jordi Colomer
. “Structural Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Mandated Quotas for Women Directors.”
Strategic Management Journal
vol.
35
, (June 01, 2014):
891
-
902
.
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Type
Journal Article
Kogut, Bruce and Amit Jain
. “Memory and Organizational Evolvability in a Neutral Landscape.”
Organization Science
vol.
25
, (January 01, 2013):
479
-
493
.
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Type
Journal Article
Kogut, Bruce and Muir Macpherson
. “The Mobility of Economists and the Diffusion of Policy Ideas: The Influence of Economics on National Policies.”
Research Policy
vol.
40
, (December 01, 2011):
1307
-
1320
.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce, Mariano Belinsky, and Jordi Colomer
. Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Assessing Possible Worlds of Mandated Quotas. February 01, 2012.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce and Jae-Suk Yang
. Executive Compensation, Fat Cats and Best Athletes. October 18, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce, Mariano Belinsky, Pietro Urso, and Jordi Colomer
. Generating Rules and Network Dynamics: Identifying the Mechanisms of Venture Capital Syndication. April 01, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce, John Paul MacDuffie, Frits Pil, and Charles Ragin
. Red Queen Dynamics and Organizational Design: Does Convergence in Performance Lead to Convergence in Form? April 01, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce and Hitesh Harnal
. Did Executive Compensation Encourage Extreme Risk-taking in Financial Institutions? April 01, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce, Tom Snijders, and Jordi Colomer
. Forming Syndications among Venture Capital Firms. April 01, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce and Amit Jain
. Organizational Performance and Evolvability. March 01, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce and Jae-Suk Yang
. The Origins and Diffusion of High Executive Pay. March 01, 2011.
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Type
Working Paper
Kogut, Bruce and Hitesh Harnal
. The Probability of Default, Excessive Risk, and Executive Compensation: A Study of Financial Services Firms from 1995 to 2008. May 01, 2010.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Kogut, Bruce and Nalin Kulatilaka
. “Financial Innovation and Social Capital Markets.”
Harvard Business Review
. Forthcoming.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Jedidi, Kamel and Bruce Kogut
. “How Social Entrepreneurs Heal the World's Wounds.”
Forbes
. October 06, 2010.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Kogut, Bruce, Patrick Bolton, and Tano Santos
. “How to Prepare for Financial Meltdowns.”
Forbes.com
. February 20, 2009.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Kogut, Bruce
. “Bail Out credit Markets, Not Auto Industry Managers.”
Forbes.com
. December 02, 2008.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce
. The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance. 
Cambridge
:
MIT Press
, 2012.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce
. Knowledge, Options, and Institutions. 
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
, 2008.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce and Peter Cornelius
. Corporate Governance and Capital Flows in a Global Economy. 
New York
:
Oxford University Press
, 2003.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce
. The Global Internet Economy. 
Cambridge, MA
:
MIT Press
, 2003.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce and Edward Bowman
. Redesigning the Firm. 
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
, 1995.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce
. Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work. 
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
, 1993.
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Type
Book
Kogut, Bruce
. Globalization of Firms and the Competitiveness of Nations. 
Lund, Sweden
:
Lund University Press
, 1991.
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Type
Chapter
Kogut, Bruce
. “Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures.” In
Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems, and Innovation
, edited by
Hiroyuki Itami, Ken Kusunoki, Tsuyoshi Numagami, and Akira Takeishi
,
77
-
94
.
Berlin
:
Springer-Verlag
, 2010.
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Type
Chapter
Kogut, Bruce
. “Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data.” In
Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis
, edited by
Glenn Morgan, John Campbell, Colin Crouch, Ove Kai Pedersen, and Richard Whitley
,
139
-
180
.
Oxford
:
Oxford University Press
, 2010.
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Type
Course
B8587: Business Strategies and Solving Social Problems
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Type
Course
B8575: Fundamentals of Governance
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Type
Case Study
Kogut, Bruce
. General Motors 2.0 What Happened? What's Next? 
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
, 2011.
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Type
Case Study
Kogut, Bruce
. A Revolution in Compensation at Investment Banks? Credit Suisse and its Competitors in 2010. 
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
, 2010.
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Type
Case Study
Kogut, Bruce
. Apple, Inc., in 2009: Seeking Sustained Corporate Growth. 
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
, 2009.
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Type
Case Study
Kogut, Bruce
. Class Note, 2009.  2009.
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Type
Case Study
Kogut, Bruce
. Eli Lilly: A Strategy for Developing Companies. 
Columbia University
:
The Jerome Chazen Case Series
, 2009.
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Type
Case Study
Meier, Stephan, Bruce Kogut, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
. Strategy Formulation and Competitive Advantage. 
Columbia Business School
:
CaseWorks
, 2009.
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