Welcome to my personal website!
This site showcases a bit of information about me, Dr. Vic Marsh, a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Institutional + Diversity (DEI) Research
My ultimate goal: causal analysis at the program & leader levels. We need to know whether skilled executive leaders de-segregate workplaces (JP Ferguson) or if certain programs remain effective despite fluctuating executive support (Kalev & Dobbin). This causal analysis matters for theory and practice: giving the public the wrong answer might set up change agents for failure and leave scholars chasing correlations that are phantoms.
Institutional + Social Issues in Management (SIM) Research
My ultimate goal is to use multi-level models that connect the skills of issue managers to the choices firms make and link the choices firms make to firm reputation outcomes. We need to know if board oversight structures (Rasche) versus lower-level org chart structure choices (Dobbin) matter most in predicting a firm’s reputation.