Victor Manuel Bennett Fuqua School of Business Marshall School of Business Duke University University of Southern California Strategy Area Dept. of Management & Organization 100 Fuqua Drive, Box 90120 3670 Trousdale Pkwy - BRI306 Durham, NC 27708 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808 vmb10 (at) duke.edu vbennett (at) marshall.usc.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS Duke University, Fuqua School of Business Durham, NC Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy 2014-Present University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business Los Angeles, CA Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations 2010-Present EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Berkeley, CA Ph.D. in Business Administration, Business and Public Policy (Committee: Steven Tadelis, Catherine Wolfram, Severin Borenstein, Joseph Farrell, Shachar Kariv) Stanford University Stanford, CA Bachelors with Honors (Thesis advisor: Kenneth Arrow) PUBLICATIONS • “Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices” with Lamar Pierce and Jason Snyder and Michael Toffel, Management Science, 2013, 59(8):1725-1742 o Management Science lead article August 2013 o Nominated for both Best Paper and Practice Implications Awards at SMS 2012 • “Organization and Bargaining: Sales Process Design at Auto Dealerships” Management Science, 2013, 59(9):2003-2018 o ISA-INFORMS Best Industry Study 2014 runner up • “Doing as They Would Do: How the Perceived Ethical Preferences of Third-Party Beneficiaries Impact Ethical Decision-Making” with Scott Wiltermuth and Lamar Pierce, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2013, 122:280- 290 • “Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the US Concert Industry” with Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu, Forthcoming Strategic Management Journal o Best Paper Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Management Meeting o Winner of 2013 BPS Division Distinguished Paper Award o Winner of Practice Implications Award at SMS 2013 and Honorable Mention for Best Paper o Written up in the Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate- intelligence/2014/07/25/musicians-and-promoters-scalpers-may-not-be- the-enemy-after-all/ WORKING PAPERS AND PROJECTS • “Corporate Scope and Product Market Competition: The Case of Automobile Leasing” with Lamar Pierce (Revision requested at SMJ) • “Firm Lifecycles: Linking Managerial Incentives, Firm Growth, and Industry Dynamics” with Dan Levinthal • “Learning from Failure?” with Jason Snyder • “Competition and Divestiture” with Emilie Feldman (Analysis) • “Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?” (Analysis) with Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun • “The Interaction of Technology, Organization, and Product Market Strategy: the Case of Auto Dealerships” with Fiona Scott Morton, Florian Zettelmeyer, and Jorge Silva-Risso SERVICE • Ad hoc reviewer: Management Science; Strategic Management Journal; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; Academy of Management Journal; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Global Strategy Journal • Organization Science Dissertation Competition Judge, INFORMS 2012 • Organizing committee, Strategy Research Forum 2014 • Panelist, PhD Project Management Doctoral Students Association TEACHING • USC Marshall - BUAD497: Core Strategy Course o Average teaching score: 4.9/5 o Golden Apple Teaching award (student nominated and voted) § 2011-2012 § 2013-2014 o Management and Organizations Departmental Teaching Award 2012-2013 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Google, Inc, Technical Specialist Mountain View, CA Statistical evaluation of “click fraud”, Internal tool development, product manager for client-facing analysis tools Beginning 2003 PATENTS AND PATENTS PENDING • Systems and Methods for Relating Traffic Using Traffic Signatures, with Sasank Mudunuri, Google, Inc., Pat. No. 7,881,255 • Methods and Systems for Generation of Community Structure in a Social Network with Adam Smith, Google, Inc, filed 2004. • Context-Aware Processes for Allowing Users of Internet Services to Access Account Information Remotely, with Gorkem Ozcelebi, Google, Inc., Pat.Nos. 8,090,773; 7,577,702 and 7,877,442 • Rules Compliance Validation, with Dr. Kourosh Gharachorloo, Gokul Rajaram, et al., Google Inc, filed 2004. • Systems and Methods for Prioritizing Error Notification, Google, Inc., Pat.No. 7,689,873 • Detection and utilization of document reading speed, Google, Inc., Pat. No. 8,271,865 • Deconstructing electronic media stream into human recognizable portions, Google, Inc., Pat. No. 7,668,610 • Automatic Selection of Representative Media Segments, Google, Inc., Pat. No.’s 7,826,911 and 8,538,566 • Traffic Prediction for Websites, Google, Inc., filed 2005. US Patent Application 20070078958 OTHER Member: PhD Project, Academy of Management, American Economic Association, Strategic Management Society Citizenship: US, Mexico Ethnicity: Hispanic, Mexican-American .