[1] From 2016 to 2023, he was director of Oxford’s Master of Public Policy Program, where he established the leadership curriculum on building trust across divided communities.
[6] 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.
[7] 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.”[8] He was recruited to Oxford’s government school from Harvard to help develop the case method of education for public administration,[9] and he has since won the Outstanding Case-Writer prize at Oxford as well.
[11][12] In 2021, he co-developed with Robert S. Kaplan the E-liability method for climate accounting as an alternative to the GHG Protocol’s Scope 3 standard, which they posited has hindered innovation on emissions reduction.
[13] The E-liability method won the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey Prize for “groundbreaking management thinking.”[14] In 2023, Ramanna was named an advisor to the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.