Courses taught
MBA: Technology and Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship and Technology Ventures
Undergraduate: Strategic Management and General Management
Executive Education: Strategy & Innovation
Expertise
Technology entrepreneurship
Technology and innovation strategy
Design-led innovation
Overview
Victor Seidel joined the Saïd Business School from his PhD studies at Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, he spent ten years in management and technical roles with IBM in the USA and Europe. He holds an MBA from Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in engineering from Cornell.
Seidel’s research is focused on how novel innovations are developed in organizations. Much of his work is field-based, drawing on research across a range of industries including consumer electronics, automotive, and medical device companies.
In Oxford he is a lecturer (the traditional UK term for Assistant Professor) on the MBA, undergraduate and executive education programs, with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation.
Under the Oxford system tenure-line faculty are associated with a department, such as the business school, while also serving as a fellow of one of the constituent colleges of the university. Seidel is a fellow Trinity College, and his web page at Trinity provides more information on undergraduate teaching and undergraduate admissions (See www.trinity.ox.ac.uk)