Karthik Ramanna | |
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Citizenship | American |
Occupation | Economist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Economist |
Sub-discipline | Financial Regulation |
Institutions | Oxford University |
Website | https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/karthik-ramanna |
Karthik Ramanna is Professor of Business & Public Policy and Director of the Master of Public Policy Program at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. [1] From 2016 to 2023, he was director of Oxford’s Master of Public Policy Program, where he established the leadership curriculum on building trust across divided communities. [2]
Ramanna received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 2007 whereupon he joined the faculty of Harvard Business School. [3]
Ramanna's scholarship has also explored regulation and decision-making at the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board. [4] He has also written about the costs and benefits of fair value accounting. [5] His 2015 book Political Standards posits that accounting rule-making is an exemplar of a "thin political market," a regulatory setting of economic consequence in which the general public is largely disinterested and where corporate special interests possess relevant tacit knowledge. This situation can result in regulatory capture. [6]
Ramanna is a proponent of reforming business ethics education, arguing that corporate managers have unique capabilities and duties to steward the basic institutions of capitalism. [7] Prior to Oxford, Ramanna taught leadership, ethics, and financial reporting at Harvard Business School, where he won the International Case Centre's Outstanding Case-Writer prize, dubbed by the Financial Times as “the business school Oscars.” [8] He was recruited to Oxford’s government school from Harvard to help develop the case method of education for public administration, [9] and he has since won the Outstanding Case-Writer prize at Oxford as well. [10]
In 2019, he advised on the UK’s reforms of the audit profession. [11] [12] In 2021, he co-developed with Robert S. Kaplan the E-liability method for climate accounting as an alternative to the GHG Protocol’s Scope 3 standard, which they posited has hindered innovation on emissions reduction. [13] The E-liability method won the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey Prize for “groundbreaking management thinking.” [14]
In 2023, Ramanna was named an advisor to the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. [15]
Karthik Ramanna | |
---|---|
Citizenship | American |
Occupation | Economist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Economist |
Sub-discipline | Financial Regulation |
Institutions | Oxford University |
Website | https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/karthik-ramanna |
Karthik Ramanna is Professor of Business & Public Policy and Director of the Master of Public Policy Program at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. [1] From 2016 to 2023, he was director of Oxford’s Master of Public Policy Program, where he established the leadership curriculum on building trust across divided communities. [2]
Ramanna received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 2007 whereupon he joined the faculty of Harvard Business School. [3]
Ramanna's scholarship has also explored regulation and decision-making at the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board. [4] He has also written about the costs and benefits of fair value accounting. [5] His 2015 book Political Standards posits that accounting rule-making is an exemplar of a "thin political market," a regulatory setting of economic consequence in which the general public is largely disinterested and where corporate special interests possess relevant tacit knowledge. This situation can result in regulatory capture. [6]
Ramanna is a proponent of reforming business ethics education, arguing that corporate managers have unique capabilities and duties to steward the basic institutions of capitalism. [7] Prior to Oxford, Ramanna taught leadership, ethics, and financial reporting at Harvard Business School, where he won the International Case Centre's Outstanding Case-Writer prize, dubbed by the Financial Times as “the business school Oscars.” [8] He was recruited to Oxford’s government school from Harvard to help develop the case method of education for public administration, [9] and he has since won the Outstanding Case-Writer prize at Oxford as well. [10]
In 2019, he advised on the UK’s reforms of the audit profession. [11] [12] In 2021, he co-developed with Robert S. Kaplan the E-liability method for climate accounting as an alternative to the GHG Protocol’s Scope 3 standard, which they posited has hindered innovation on emissions reduction. [13] The E-liability method won the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey Prize for “groundbreaking management thinking.” [14]
In 2023, Ramanna was named an advisor to the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. [15]