Rate My Professor David Hart

David Hart is an associate professor in the Romney Institute of Public Service and Ethics at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business. He holds a PhD in public affairs and policy from the University at Albany, State University of New York (1997), with a dissertation on the role of compliance and legal staff in securities firms; a Master of Public Administration from Brigham Young University (1991); and a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology with a minor in Spanish from Brigham Young University (1989). Hart began his tenure at BYU Marriott in 2000 as an assistant professor, was promoted to associate professor in 2007, and served as director and department chair of the Romney Institute of Public Management from 2008 to 2014. His earlier academic appointments include assistant professor of management at the University of Mary Washington (1998–2000), where he taught business and society and organizational theory; visiting assistant professor of management at Texas Tech University (1996–1997), teaching strategic management, international management, multinational strategy, and organization theory; adjunct teacher of business ethics in the Evening and Weekend MBA program at the Haas School of Business, University of California–Berkeley (2014–present); and instructor positions at Empire State College (1994–1996), University of Utah (1996), University at Albany (1992–1994), and BYU (1996–1998).

Hart’s research focuses on ethics in organizations, leadership, psychological contracts, administrative ethics, business ethics education, moral development, and public administration. Key publications include “The Impact of Leader Moral Humility on Follower Moral Self-Efficacy and Behavior” with Bradley Owens et al. in Journal of Applied Psychology (2019); “Martial Virtue: Civic Humanism as a Groundwork for American Military Ethics” with David K. Hart and Rebecca Nesbit in Administration & Society (2011); “The Ethics of Lateral Hiring” with Tim Gardner and Jason Stansbury in Business Ethics Quarterly (2010); “The Developmental Psychology of Ethical Theory” with F. Neil Brady in Journal of Business Ethics (2007); and “Untangling Employee Loyalty: A Psychological Contract Perspective” with Jeffrey A. Thompson in Business Ethics Quarterly (2007). He co-edited Research Companion to Ethical Behavior in Organizations (Edward Elgar, 2014) and authored Wall Street Polices Itself: How Securities Firms Manage the Legal Hazards of Competitive Pressures with David McCaffrey (Oxford University Press, 1998). Hart has received the Marriott School of Management Citizenship Excellence Award (2015), Teacher Excellence Award (2008), and Best Symposium Award from the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management (2000). He teaches ethics to Master of Public Administration students, emphasizing intentions in ethical decision-making, and has delivered addresses such as “Be Excellent: Becoming Who You Are in Today’s World” at BYU.