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Karthik Ramanna

Karthik Ramanna is a professor of business and public policy at University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, where he has served as director of one of the world’s most diverse leadership programs. Previously a professor at Harvard Business School, Professor Ramanna studies how organizations and leaders build trust with stakeholders. His scholarship has won numerous awards including the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey Prize for “groundbreaking management thinking,” and three times the international Case Centre’s prizes for “outstanding case-writing,” dubbed by the Financial Times as “the business school Oscars.”
Book Excerpts

The Age of Outrage

Karthik Ramanna
The following is an excerpt from Karthik Ramanna’s new book, “The Age of Outrage: How to Lead in a Polarized World,” now out at Harvard Business Review Press. Ramanna will discuss his new book tomorrow, October 31, 2024, at an event cohosted by the Stigler Center and the Rustandy Center. You can register here to attend the event in-person or on the livestream.
Commentary

This Proposal Could Inadvertently Improve Corporate Accounting

Karthik Ramanna
A provision within the Biden administration’s Build Back Better bill that assesses a minimum tax on certain companies based on their income reported to...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting

Robert Kaplan
Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations, increase incentives...
Antitrust and Competition

Unreliable Accounts: How Regulators Fabricate Conceptual Narratives to Diffuse Criticism

Karthik Ramanna
In 2010, as the world was reeling from the global financial crisis, the body that determines generally accepted accounting principles for listed corporations in...
News

The Metaphysics of Regulatory Capture

Karthik Ramanna
Stiglerian capture and corrosive cultural capture, its left-leaning parallel, are ostensibly symbionts, two attempts at identifying impediments to keeping markets competitive by preventing the...
Commentary

The Case for Optimism About America

Karthik Ramanna
The good news is that America is still the engine of global wealth creation: nothing fosters political pragmatism like prosperity. But there is also...
News

Seven Reasons Why the Wirecard Fraud Matters

Karthik Ramanna
We now know that Wirecard was a massive fraud. The company—treated like a rock star by regulators and key players in finance—fabricated customers, invented...
News

Corporations Are Already Plenty Powerful. Stakeholder Capitalism Could Make Them More So

Karthik Ramanna
Encouraging corporations to further step into the role of governments and civil society groups by becoming more "socially focused" risks greater depreciation of our...
Commentary

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Liberal Order?

Karthik Ramanna
In the past 30 years, liberalism has not lived up to its promise to deliver economic returns for the broad majority of society. But...
Covid-19

Election Timetabling Is Not the Role of Judges

Karthik Ramanna
As wrong as it is that the Wisconsin elections were held under patently unsafe conditions, it is not the place of the courts to...
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