Dr Pegram Harrison

BA (Yale University, 1989); PhD (University of Cambridge, 1997); MBA (London, 2000)

I have worked at Oxford since 2008, teaching Management Studies to undergraduates and postgraduates; and creating executive education programmes that integrate leadership and the humanities. I am the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Management for the Economics & Management degree, at the Saïd Business School; and a lecturer at Brasenose College. Before Oxford, I taught at the London Business School and ran its Emerging Leaders Programme; at Regent's College London as Principal Lecturer in Entrepreneurship; and at Birkbeck and New York Universities. I completed my PhD in English Literature and Indian History at Corpus Christi College Cambridge University, with a choral scholarship at Clare College.

In addition to being Director of Undergraduate Studies in Management at Oxford's Saïd Business School, I teach and convene the foundational Prelims courses for Economics & Management as lecturer and tutor in General Management; and teach Finals options in Entrepreneurship and in Strategy.

My research concerns the leadership and management of cultural and arts organisations across a range of topics including ticketing for art galleries, museum leadership, the arts in leadership education, management practices in historic shipyards, etc.

I have also worked on entrepreneurial leadership, women's entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurship in Islamic societies.

I am proud to serve on the Advisory Board of the Oxford Edge, and to teach on many programmes for emerging entrepreneurs in Oxford at the Edge, SBS, and elsewhere. I have been part of several start-ups in various industries, e.g. television production, organic food, financial re-engineering.

Harrison and Zan, eds. (2026, forthcoming) Transformation in European Historical Shipyards, London: Routledge

Harrison (2024) "O Clap Your Hands: leadership lessons from the experience of music" in Brooks and Lamb eds, The Arts of Leading" Washington; Georgetown University Press

Harrison, Zan, Ferri (2023) "The heritization of Historic Naval Shipyards in Europe" in Zan ed, The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-use. London: Routledge

Harrison et al (2018) Museum Leaders Report, Arts Council England and University of Oxford Gardens, Libraries and Museums
https://www.glam.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/glam/documents/media/the_museum_leaders_report.pdf

Short pieces in Oxford Answers: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/oxford-answers/tags/pegram-harrison

Choral singing, architectural heritage, summers in New England, my family and our dog