Bart Victor

Bart Victor works with students and faculty at Owen and across Vanderbilt to study enterprise approaches to the alleviation of poverty, as well as the ethical foundations of business.

Leadership

Professor Victor has served in many leading capacities in academia and the private sector. He is the Faculty Director of the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures at Owen. He has served as Chairman of the Board at Baptist Hospital System, as well as the Center for Community Health Solutions at Vanderbilt. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Executive Discovery LLC, a company in the LEGO Group. He has also held the role of Senior Editor at Organization Science.

Teaching

Professor Victor teaches several courses at Owen, including Organizational Behavior, Ethics, and Organization Change, for the MBA and Executive MBA programs. He has also taught customized courses within the Executive Education program.

Research Interests

Professor Victor’s research focuses on the practical and moral dimensions of enterprise approaches to the alleviation of poverty, and the ethical foundations of business, as well as the social and moral consequences of new organizational forms and the process of strategy making.

Education

• Ph.D., Business Administration, University of North Carolina, 1985
• M.S., Educational Administration, Bank Street College of Education, 1979
• B.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1977