Bruce Kogut — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Leadership and Ethics, and Director of the Stanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School.
Known for his work on corporate governance, the knowledge-based theory of the firm (with Udo Zander), and research on knowledge networks (with Morten Hansen).
Leads the Business, AI and Democracy (BAID) initiative at Columbia University, researching misinformation, media, DAOs, and AI.
Authored or edited several books, including "Knowledge, Options, and Institutions" (2008) and "The Global Internet Economy" (2003).
Serves on the academic advisory board to the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
Earned his PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management in 1983.

Biography

Bruce Mitchel Kogut is an American organizational theorist and Professor of Leadership and Ethics, serving as the Director of the Stanford C. Bernstein Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He also holds a courtesy affiliation in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. Until 2025, he was one of the heads of computational social science at the university and led the Business, AI and Democracy (BAID) initiative, part of the HUB project at the Business School.