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Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano

Visiting Professor of Business Administration

Visiting Professor of Business Administration

Peter Tufano is the Peter Moores Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.  He served as the Peter Moores Dean of the School from 2011 to 2021.   For 2021-22, he is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School and Visiting Scholar at Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.  Peter was a Professor at HBS from 1989-2011, where he oversaw the school’s tenure and promotion processes, campus planning, and university relations. He advised the University on financial and real estate matters. He was the founding co-chair of the Harvard i-lab.

Peter’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and, for more than two decades, household finance.  With HKS Prof. Danny Schneider he is studying the recently enhanced federal Child Tax Credit.  He has been studying corporate adoption of ESG practices as part of the Ownership Project at Oxford, and is launching a broader climate finance agenda, including the creation of Business Schools for Climate Leadership. He is also studying leadership transitions where leaders have fiduciary duties.
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Peter Tufano is the Peter Moores Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.  He served as the Peter Moores Dean of the School from 2011 to 2021.   For 2021-22, he is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School and Visiting Scholar at Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School.  Peter was a Professor at HBS from 1989-2011, where he oversaw the school’s tenure and promotion processes, campus planning, and university relations. He advised the University on financial and real estate matters. He was the founding co-chair of the Harvard i-lab.

Peter’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and, for more than two decades, household finance.  With HKS Prof. Danny Schneider he is studying the recently enhanced federal Child Tax Credit.  He has been studying corporate adoption of ESG practices as part of the Ownership Project at Oxford, and is launching a broader climate finance agenda, including the creation of Business Schools for Climate Leadership. He is also studying leadership transitions where leaders have fiduciary duties.

As Dean, Peter championed the mission of making business, business schools, and entrepreneurship forces for justice and systems change, re-orienting the School around global challenges while transforming the gender and global composition of the class.  This orientation, along with his approach of “embedding” the School within the broader University, produced the 1+1 MBA programme; the required Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO) course; its global analogue, Map the System; the Engaging with the Humanities Programme; the Oxford Foundry;  Oxford’s joining of the Creative Destruction Lab, its Aspen-Oxford Leadership Programme, and more.

Peter founded and chairs Commonwealth, a non-profit building financial security and opportunity for financially vulnerable people through innovation and partnerships to change systems.  Their work includes tax-time savings, financial entertainment, workplace emergency saving, and prize-linked savings.  Their work contributed to the passage of the American Savings Promotion Act in December 2014, which removed federal barriers to the sale of prize-linked savings products.

Peter earned his BA in economics (summa cum laude), MBA (with high distinction) and PhD in Business Economics at Harvard University.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and recently earned GARP’s certification in Sustainability and Climate Risk. 

Personal Webpage: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/peter-tufano

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Books
  • Kester, W. Carl, Richard Ruback, and Peter Tufano, eds. Teaching Manual to accompany Case Problems in Finance. 12th ed. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 2005. View Details
  • Kester, W. Carl, Richard Ruback, and Peter Tufano, eds. Case Problems in Finance. 12th ed. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, 2004. View Details
  • Mason, Scott P., Robert C. Merton, André Perold, and Peter Tufano. Teacher's Manual for Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation. Prentice Hall, 1996. View Details
  • Crane, D. B., K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri, and P. Tufano. The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995. View Details
  • Mason, Scott P., Robert C. Merton, André Perold, and Peter Tufano. Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995. View Details
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Peter’s research has focused on financial innovation and financial engineering—and for more than two decades, household finance. With HKS Prof. Danny Schneider he is studying the recently enhanced federal Child Tax Credit. He has been studying corporate adoption of ESG practices as part of the Ownership Project at Oxford, and is launching a broader climate finance agenda, including the creation of Business Schools for Climate Leadership. He is also studying leadership transitions where leaders have fiduciary duties.
Keywords: Financial Innovation; Financial Engineering; Household Finance; Leadership Transitions
Teaching
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As Dean, Peter made systems change a core part of the curriculum, collaborating with colleagues from across the University. He championed and was part of the teaching team for Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO), which is a part of the core curriculum for MBA and EMBA students. In this course, students learn how to analyze and map systems, identify intervention points to lead to systemic change, and work on self-designed projects to effect this change. While the tools underlying GOTO are similar from year to year (systems maps, systems dynamics, user-centred design, influence strategies), the substantive topic addressed changes from year to year, and has included demography and ageing; big data and data privacy; water; energy; pandemic recovery; and climate change. The expertise for these topics is drawn from colleagues across Oxford, including a close partnership with the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. At Oxford he also taught in the inaugural online course on FinTech. At HBS, Peter created and taught courses on Corporate Financial Engineering, Household Finance (joint with HLS) and he lead the team that created Finance 2. In 2021-22, he is on sabbatical and is not teaching.
Awards & Honors
Attendee at the World Economic Forum and Global Agenda Councils, 2016–2020.
Honorary Fellow of St. Benet's Hall at University of Oxford.
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).
Won the 2016 Faculty Pioneer Award for Institutional Leadership from the Aspen Institute.
Inducted into the Monticello (NY) Hall of Distinction, 2016.
Named one of the GQ 100 Most Connected Men in Britain, 2015.
Received the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2002 and 2009.
Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award in 1997, 2001, and 2011.
Winner of the 1996 Smith Breeden Prize for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Finance for "Who Manages Risk? An Empirical Examination of Risk Management Practices in the Gold Mining Industry" (September 1996).
Named Dean's Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School, 1985–1988.
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1979.
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