Bruce Mitchel Kogut (born 1953) is an American organizational theorist, and Professor of Leadership and Ethics Director of the Columbia Business School. He is particularly known for his work with

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Biography

Kogut obtained his BA in Political Science in 1975 at the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Franci ...

, his MA in International Affairs in 1978 at the

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, New York and in 1983 his PhD at the

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

.Kogut CV
July 2007. Accessed 02.02.2015 After graduation in 1983 Kogut started his academic career at the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

as Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, where he got promoted Associate Professor and eventually Chaired Professor. From 1993 to 1995 he was also Director of Wharton's Emerging Economies Programs, and from 1997 to 2000 Associate Dean for its Doctoral Programs. From 1994 to 2002 he also co-directed the Reginald H. Jones Center for Management Policy, Strategy, and Organization. In 2003 he moved to

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

, where he was appointed the Eli Lilly Chair in Innovation, Business and Society. From 2004 to 2006 he was also Scientific Director at the EIASM in Brussels, and from 2005 to 2007 founding Director of Insead Social Entrepreneurship Program. Since 2007 back in the United States he is Sanford Bernstein Chaired Professor at the Columbia Business School. Kogut's research interests are in the field of "comparative and economic sociology, strategy, comparative methods, social entrepreneurship, and governance." Kogut teaches courses to PhD, EMBA and MBA programs.

Selected publications

* Bowman, Edward H., and Bruce Mitchel Kogut, eds. ''Redesigning the firm.'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Articles, a selection: * Kogut, Bruce.
Joint ventures: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
" ''Strategic management journal'' 9.4 (1988): 319-332. * Kogut, Bruce, and

.
Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities, and the replication of technology
" ''Organization science'' 3.3 (1992): 383-397. * Kogut, Bruce, and Harbir Singh.
The effect of national culture on the choice of entry mode
" ''Journal of international business studies'' (1988): 411-432. * Kogut, Bruce, and

.
Knowledge of the firm and the evolutionary theory of the multinational corporation
" Journal of international business studies (1993): 625-645. * Zander, Udo, and Bruce Kogut.
Knowledge and the speed of the transfer and imitation of organizational capabilities: An empirical test
" Organization science 6.1 (1995): 76-92. * Kogut, Bruce, and

.
What firms do? Coordination, identity, and learning
" ''Organization science'' 7.5 (1996): 502-518. * Almeida, Paul, and Bruce Kogut.
Localization of knowledge and the mobility of engineers in regional networks
" Management science 45.7 (1999): 905-917.

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