Chris Bart
| Chris Bart | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 6 |
| Occupation | educator, professional speaker, management consultant, author |
| Website | corporatemissionsinc.com |
Chris Bart is an educator, former university professor, professional speaker, business consultant and author. He is a notable authority on organizational mission and vision statements, and also for his knowledge both on the roles and responsibilities of corporate directors and the strategic governance of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Bart received his PhD from the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario and his MBA and BA (Hons. Bus.) from the Schulich School of Business, York University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.
After 33 years of service, Bart retired from his position as Professor of Strategy and Governance at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business in Hamilton, Ontario. During this time, he co-founded The Directors College where, from its inception in 2003 to 2013, he served as its inaugural Principal and Lead Professor and remained the College’s top rated instructor. The College is Canada's first university-accredited certification program for corporate directors. He now assists the College as its Lead Faculty. Bart is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of Business Governance & Ethics, a Research Fellow at the Asian Institute of Corporate Governance and both Founder and Principal of the Not-For-Profit Governance Institute.
He was named "Outstanding Undergraduate Business Professor" in 1982, 1987 and 1996 and "MBA Professor of the Year" in 1984, 1989 and 1991. Bart became DeGroote’s most decorated professor in 1995, when he won the school’s highest teaching award: The President’s Award for Teaching Excellence.
In 1993, Bart helped found the Management of Innovation & New Technology Research Center at McMaster University and was named its first director. The following year, he created the Innovation Management Network, a global association of professionals who collaborate through the Internet on matters of innovation and new technology.
Bart retired from the university in 2013 after he and 5 other professors were ordered to serve lengthy suspensions of up to three years by a secret university tribunal that found they had harassed other faculty in an effort to deny their dean, Paul Bates, a second term. However, with the moral support and financial backing of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), the five professors asked in 2014, the courts to review the tribunal’s work, conduct and penalties. Commenting on the case, CAUT’s representative Jim Turk claims that the tribunal’s process was fatally flawed and adds: "This was a staged trial ordered by the university under rules that violated every concept of natural justice in this country…It had some of the character of a show trial, except it was in secret." For instance, none of the three academics on the panel had any training in law and the University’s policies allowed no right of appeal, leaving an application for judicial review as the only available response. A decision from the courts is expected in 2015.
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