USC Marshall School of Business

Victor Bennett studies how factors internal to firms, like compensation, delegation, and organizational structure, interact with external factors like market composition, competition, and ability to capture value. His dissertation, "Empirical Essays in Organizational Economics," is a detailed study of the automobile retail industry that finds, among other things, that dealerships are better at capturing lower price deals when sales tasks are distributed serially among salespeople than when salespeople work in parallel. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Bennett worked at Google on issues ranging from fraud prevention to book search.