Brian J. Hall
Brian J. Hall
Brian J. Hall is Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the Harvard Economics Department. [1]
Education
Professor Hall received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard and holds an M.Phil. in economics from University of Cambridge. He served on the staff of the President’s Council of Economics Advisers in 1990-91. Previously, Professor Hall served as Executive Vice President and later, Acting CEO, of Alghanim Industries, one of the largest multi-business companies in the Middle East. He also served as the faculty chair of the Global Initiative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Career
Professor Hall teaches and researches in the area of organizational strategy and behavioral economics, with a focus on performance management and incentive systems.
He has taught various courses on organizational strategy, incentives, and negotiations in both the MBA and the executive education programs.
Most recently, he taught a course called Managing, Organizing and Motivating for Value (MOMV), which focuses on how managers do the two crucial things necessary to success: 1.
Motivating value-creating behavior in their organizations through influence, and 2.
Organizing, through incentive systems, to encourage value-creating behavior.
Research
Professor Hall’s research has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner-oriented journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Harvard Business Review.
He has also written numerous cases in the area of organizational strategy, performance management, corporate governance and incentives.
His research is frequently in the national and international financial press and he has been the featured speaker at numerous conferences and symposia.
He has provided expert testimony before the U.S.
Senate and appeared on CNBC and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Appointments
Professor Hall is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
He has served as a consultant and advisor to many leading international companies in a variety of sectors, including Intel, CITI, Textron, Pratt & Whitney, Duracell and J. P. Morgan.
He currently advises the Chairman and CEO of Alghanim Industries.
Publications
Brooks, Alison Wood, Karen Huang, Nicole Abi-Esber, Ryan W. Buell, Laura Huang, and Brian Hall.
"Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful Individuals Should Reveal Their Failures."
(pdf) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 148, no. 4 (April 2019): 667–687.
Hall, Brian, and Andrew Wasynczuk.
"The Gentleman's 'Three'."
Harvard Business Review 89, nos.
7-8 (July–August 2011).
(HBR Case Study.)
Hall, Brian. "Transferable Stock Options (TSOs) and the Coming Revolution in Equity-Based Pay."
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 16, no. 1 (winter 2004).
Hall, Brian, and Trent Staats.
"Do the Numbers Get In your Way?" Negotiation 7, no. 11 (November 2004).
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Baker, George P., and Brian J. Hall.
"CEO Incentives and Firm Size."
Journal of Labor Economics 22, no. 4 (October 2004).
Hall, Brian J., and Thomas A. Knox.
"Underwater Options and the Dynamics of Executive Pay-to-Performance Sensitivities."
Journal of Accounting Research 42, no. 2 (May 2004).
Hall, Brian J., and Kevin J. Murphy.
"The Trouble with Executive Stock Options."
Journal of Economic Perspectives 17, no. 3 (Summer 2003).
Hall, Brian J. "The Six Challenges of Equity-Based Pay Design."
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 15, no. 3 (spring 2003): 49–70.
Hall, Brian J., and Kevin J. Murphy.
"Stock Options for Undiversified Executives."
Journal of Accounting & Economics 33, no. 1 (February 2002).
Hall, Brian, and Kevin J. Murphy.
"Option Value Does Not Equal Option Cost."
WorldatWork Journal 10, no. 2 (March 2001).
Hall, Brian. "Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures."
Journal of Risk and Insurance 67, no. 3 (September 2000): 415–438.
Hall, Brian. "What You Need to Know about Stock Options."
Harvard Business Review 78, no. 2 (March–April 2000): 121–129.
Hall, Brian. "Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options."
American Economic Review 90, no. 2 (May 2000).
Hall, Brian. "The Design of Multi-Year Option Plans."
Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 12, no. 2 (summer 1999): 97–106.
Hall, Brian J., and Jeffrey B. Liebman.
"Are CEOs Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 113, no. 3 (August 1998): 653–691.
Hall, Brian J., and Steven R. Grenadier.
"Risk-Based Capital Requirements and the Riskiness of Bank Portfolios."
Regional Science and Urban Economics 26 (June 1996): 433–64.
Hall, Brian J. "How Has the Basle Accord Affected Bank Portfolios?" Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (December 1993).
Hall, Brian, and Richard B. Freeman.
"Permanent Homelessness in America?" Population Research and Policy Review 6, no. 1 (June 1987).