Faculty
Robert C. Pozen is currently a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
In 2012, he won acclaim for a popular book entitled Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours. In the Spring of 2021, he will be publishing a new book on productivity when working remotely, entitled, Remote Inc.: How to Thrive at Work…Wherever You Are.
In 2004, Bob became the executive chairman of MFS Investment Management, which now manages over $400 billion for mutual funds and pension plans. Between 2004 and 2011, MFS’s assets under management nearly tripled from a base of $130 billion.
During his distinguished career, Bob has been active in business, government and academia. Prior to joining MFS, he was vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management & Research Company. During Bob’s five years as president, Fidelity’s assets increased from $500 billion to $900 billion.
In late 2001 and 2002, Bob served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, where he developed a progressive plan to make the system solvent. In 2003, Bob served as Secretary of Economic Affairs for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. In 2007, he served as chairman of the SEC's Committee to Improve Financial Reporting.
Bob is currently an independent director of AMC (a subsidiary of the World Bank). He previously was an independent director of Nielsen, Medtronic PLC, and BCE (the parent of Bell Canada). He also serves as chairman of the Leadership Council of the Tax Policy Center, chairman of the Advisory Board of Agility (an outsourced CIO), trustee of the IFRS Foundation (international accounting), and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bob frequently writes articles for the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. He has published a book on the recent financial crisis, Too Big To Save? How to Fix the US Financial System, and a guide for investors entitled The Fund Industry: How Your Money is Managed.
Bob graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College and holds a law degree from Yale Law School, where he also obtained a doctorate for a book on state enterprises in Africa. He lives in Boston with his wife of over 40 years.
Featured Publication
Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours.Pozen, Robert C. New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 2012.
Featured Publication
The Fund Industry: How Your Money is Managed.Pozen, Robert C., and Theresa Hamacher. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015.
Guest, Nicholas, S.P. Kothari, and Robert C. Pozen. The Accounting Review Vol. 97, No. 6 (2022): 297-326. SSRN Preprint.
Pozen, Robert C. CFO.com, February 1, 2022.
Pozen, Robert C. The Hill, August 6, 2021.
Pozen, Robert C. MarketWatch, July 12, 2021.
AI really can pay off. But leaders must take a systematic approach, understand how the technology works, and let their team leaders determine how it’s used.
The MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy (GCFP) is awarding President of the Republic of Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam the Miriam Pozen Prize.
Senior lecturer Robert Pozen wrote: "President Donald Trump's threat to block the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a new six-lane span linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, defies economic logic — and smells suspiciously like a political quid pro quo that will harm the competitiveness of the United States. Turning down a fully built, Canadian-funded bridge to and from Detroit is economic malpractice."
Senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen wrote: "The refund debate underscores the need for clear rules. Who is entitled to a refund: the plaintiffs in this case, all the businesses that paid import duties or all consumers who paid higher prices for imported goods? When a president relies on expansive readings of emergency statutes and rapidly changes tariff rates on an ad hoc basis, the result is litigation and political chaos."
Senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen wrote: "Since returning to the presidency, Donald Trump has governed with the same volatility that defined his first term — but now with a new tool in hand: federal ownership stakes in private companies. This unprecedented economic power grab, coupled with opaque decision-making and conflicts of interest, has created a climate of instability for investors and companies."
Senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen and co-author wrote: "Corporations are rushing to invest in artificial intelligence. But corporate-wide AI policies alone can't transform work, according to our recent research. For AI efforts to pay off, executives must set clear guardrails while enabling teams to write the rules that make tool adoption real. Only then will AI deliver the meaningful returns that organizational leaders are pursuing."
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