NBER profile: Brian J. Hall.

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Brian J. Hall is an NBER Research Associate in the Programs on Corporate Finance, Public Economics, and Labor Studies and a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Previously, he spent four years as an assistant professor of economics in Harvard University's Economics Department.

Hall received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard and holds an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University. He was on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1990-1. Hall teaches and researches in the area of performance management, corporate governance, and organizational strategy, with a specialty in compensation and incentive design.

Hall's research has been published widely in a variety of academic and practitioner-oriented journals, including the American Economic Review, the...