Karthik Ramanna
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]
Ramanna's scholarship has explored regulation and decision-making at the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board.[2] He has also written about the costs and benefits of fair value accounting.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5] 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.”[6]
Publications
- Ramanna, K. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015; ISBN 0-2262-1074-X
References
- ^ "Professor Karthik Ramanna joins the School". www.bsg.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Opinion - The Quiet War on Corporate Accountability". nytimes.com.
- ^ "Opinion - Ruling From the Shadows". nytimes.com.
- ^ "Harvard Professor Says We Need More Political Rancor... On The 'Boring' Issues". www.wbur.org.
- ^ Knowledge, HBS Working. "Why Managers Have A Moral Obligation To Preserve Capitalism". forbes.com.
- ^ "Two HBS Faculty Members Win Awards in Global Case Centre Competition - News - Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu.