Victor “Vic” Marsh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Rotman School of Management at The University of Toronto. I completed a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021.

Before, Vic spent years inside the federal government’s bureaucracy as a United States diplomat, and is now an institutional scholar studying where bureaucracies come from: organizational design decisions at entrepreneurial firms.

His dissertation is on the topic of innovation in diversity practices: why some firms adopt turnkey diversity programs, while others engage in experimentation and tailoring to fit their unique needs. In comparative case studies of entrepreneurial tech firms in Silicon Valley that had similar HR structures, similar CEO political leanings, and similar “inclusion-before-diversity” diversity strategies, Vic’s work found what behaviors led to the innovative approach versus the copy-and-paste approach.

Before joining the Rotman School of Management at The University of Toronto, Vic was a U.S. diplomat posted to Cyprus, Hong Kong & Macau, and the Secretary of State’s headquarters team.

Vic holds a BA from Stanford with honors in international security studies, a master’s degree in the same field from Princeton, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the business school at the University of Colorado Boulder.