I'm an Associate Professor in the Work and Organizations Group at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
My research is in personnel economics, and I work with companies to analyze HR-related topics like hiring, promotions, performance evaluation, and compensation. My work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, American Sociological Review, Demography, the ILR Review, and Industrial Relations, and covered by the NY Times, WSJ, NPR, the Economist, Financial Times, and other outlets.
I'm also Academic Director for the University of Minnesota's excellent Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations program and a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Applied Economics and the Minnesota Population Center. I also work to advance our research mission as Senior Editor at Organization Science, where I typically handle papers involving the experimental or econometric analyses of people and organizations. In July 2024 I stepped down as Associate Editor at Management Science, and in September 2024, I'll be joining as Associate Editor handling economics submissions at the ILR Review.
I received my PhD in 2013 from the MIT Sloan School of Management and my BS from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. I teach Masters Compensation and Benefits, MBA Negotiations, and PhD Economics of HR. My digital self is tirelessly teaching Managing Employee Compensation on Coursera.