Bobby Parmar

Bobby Parmar is the Shannon Smith Emerging Scholar in Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business and Co-director of the Darden Experiential Leadership Development Lab.  He is a Fellow at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics as well as the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.  A recipient of several teaching and research awards, Dr. Parmar was also named one of the top 40 young business professors in the world.  As a consultant and trainer, he has worked with diverse companies including Mars AB Inbev, UVA Healthsystem, PPG, The US Navy Seals, State Farm, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Accenture.

Dr. Parmar’s teaching focuses on ethics, collaboration and value creation. His research explores how managers make decisions and collaborate in uncertain and changing environments to create value for stakeholders. His work has been published in Organization Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Studies, Business & Society, and the Journal of Business Ethics. He is also the author of two books on stakeholder theory.

He holds an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville with his wife and two daughters.