Vikram R. Bhargava

Vikram R. Bhargava is an assistant professor of strategic management and public policy at the George Washington University School of Business. He holds a joint Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Ethics & Legal Studies (The Wharton School) and Philosophy (School of Arts and Sciences). He also is co-editor of the Journal of Business Ethics‘s section on technology & business ethics. His research centers around the distinctive ethics and policy issues that technology gives rise to in organizational contexts. 

He is interested in topics including technology addiction, mass social media outrage, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, hiring algorithms, the future of work, and other topics related to technology policy and ethics. His research has been published by the Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, and the Oxford University Press. 

Dr. Bhargava has been interviewed by press outlets including Marketplace, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and has spoken at the Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Oxford. He also has written for popular audiences at the San Francisco Chronicle, Al Jazeera, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and Newsweek. 

He has won the Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty of the Year award, V.I.P. Professor Award, and Career Influencer Award. He delivers annual visiting lectures on digital technology policy and ethics to graduate students at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and Thayer School of Engineering, and he has taught courses at Wharton on multiple occasions.