Faculty Profile

CHRIS BART

Strategic Market Leadership and Health Services Management

Professor/Director, MINT Research Centre

Area of Expertise
Dr. Bart is the world’s leading authority on organizational mission and vision statements. His pioneering research has pinpointed that a company’s mission-organizational alignment™ is the critical success variable in effective mission implementation and for creating the mission driven organization™. As a result, Dr. Bart has become highly sought after by those firms seeking to develop vision and mission statements that get results. His practical approach for bringing mission statements to life has inspired business leaders and audiences around the world.

Professor Bart is also the Founder, Principal and Lead Professor of The Directors College at McMaster University, Canada’s first university accredited corporate director certification program. As a result of this activity, he has helped re-shape the governance of major for-profit and not-for-profit organizations throughout Canada. He is especially well-known for his views on the proper role of boards in setting their enterprise’s strategic direction.

Professional Activities

Dr. Bart has published over 100 articles, cases and reviews. He is the author of the Canadian business best seller, “A Tale of Two Employees and the Person Who Wanted to Lead Them” as well as the widely acclaimed CICA publication “20 Questions Directors Should Ask About Strategy”.

Dr Bart currently serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Business Governance & Ethics. He is also an innovator. He helped establish the Management of Innovation and New Technology Research Centre at McMaster and was its first Director. Later, he devised and created the Innovation Management Network; a worldwide association of academics and practitioners who collaborate through the internet on matters of innovation and new technology.

Dr. Bart has been awarded the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Business “Achievement Award for Corporate Governance”, the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce “HR Hero Award”, the United Way “Chairman’s Award” and McMaster’s “Innovation Award”. A highly regarded lecturer, Dr. Bart has received both the “Outstanding Undergraduate Business Professor” and “MBA Professor of the Year” awards on multiple occasions. He has also won “The President’s Award for Teaching Excellence”, McMaster’s highest teaching award – which, at the time, made him the most decorated professor at the DeGroote School. In 2009, his CA designation was elevated to FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants).

Over the years, Dr. Bart has been invited to lecture at numerous institutions throughout the world, including South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Czech Republic and China.

Dr. Bart is listed in Canadian Who’s Who and has been a director on many Boards.

Education
Ph.D., Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
C.A., Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
M.B.A., Schulich School of Business, York University
B.A., (Hons.Bus.), Schulich School of Business, York University

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