Peter TUFANO
Dean, Sa?d Business School, University of Oxford
Peter Tufano is the Peter Moores Dean at Saïd Business School and a Professorial Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford. At Oxford, Peter has championed the concept of a “business school embedded within the University”. While this connection begins with the membership of all business school students in Oxford Colleges, it is embodied in a number of initiatives: our Oxford Foundry, whereby our students work with counterparts around the University on new business ventures; our joint degree programmes including 1+1 MBA programme, whereby students can combine an MBA with other Masters Programmes at Oxford; Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford (GOTO) programme, whereby students and alumni study disruptive global phenomena and their impact on business over the next quarter century; Engaging with the Humanities Programme, whereby our students learn from humanities scholars and teachers primarily about leadership and values; and the extensive research conducted by the faculty with colleagues around Oxford. The last decade of Peter’s research has focused primarily on consumer finance. He has been at the forefront of this academic field and bringing ideas from research into practice by working directly with businesses and policymakers. His work is credited with influencing three US policy initiatives, most recently the passing of the American Savings Promotion Act in 2014. In 2000 he founded an innovative non-profit called the Doorways to Dreams Fund that works with partner organisations to test and promote innovations that serve the financial needs of financially vulnerable income households. Prior to joining Oxford, Peter was a faculty member at the Harvard Business School for 22 years. During this time, Peter assumed a number of leadership roles and co-founded the Harvard innovation lab, a cross-university initiative to foster entrepreneurship. He earned his AB (summa cum laude), MBA and PhD degrees at Harvard University.