Kevin F. Hallock
Dean, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Joseph R. Rich’80 Professor of Economics and Human Resource Studies
Ph.D. in Economics, Princeton University
Research interests:
Labor markets, executive compensation, plan design and mix pf employee compensation
Kevin F. Hallock is Dean and Professor of Strategy and Business Economics at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and the Joseph R. Rich ’80 Professor of Economics and Human Resource Studies and Founding Director of the Institute for Compensation Studies in the ILR School at Cornell University. Previous Cornell positions include the Chair of the University Financial Policy Committee, the Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and the Donald C. Opatrny ’74 Chair of the University-Wide Department of Economics.
He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources. Kevin’s work has covered a variety of topics including executive compensation, compensation design, discrimination, compensation of persons with disabilities, strikes, the gender gap, job loss, the link between labor and financial markets, the valuation of employee stock options, compensation of leaders of for-profits, nonprofits and labor unions, retirement, and quantile regression. His current research is focused on labor markets, executive compensation, and the plan design and mix of employee compensation.
His work has been published in a variety of outlets including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Public Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Funding for his research has come from various sources, including the American Compensation Association, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S.Department of Education and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is the recipient of the Albert Reese Award for the Best Dissertation in Labor Economics from the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University and the John Dunlop Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association.
He earned a B.A. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1991, a M.A. in Economics from Princeton Universityin 1993 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 1995.
The students are absolutely remarkable.
They are great students.
They come from China.
They study at Tsinghua.They study finance at Tsinghua University.
Then they come to Cornell University in Ithaca and study in the United States’ general business knowledge.
In that combination in degrees from both Tsinghua University and Cornell University in combination really make for a remarkable program.
They are immersed with cultures in China and the United States, and understand business from both points of view.
They learn Finance in Tsinghua University, but they also learn Marketing, Management, Accounting, Communications Technical abilities also here at Cornell University.
That combination is quite unusual.
What I like to say to prospective students to this program is that there really are remarkable opportunities afforded to them in the Cornell-Tsinghua joint degree program.
There is a dizzying number of faculty that they would have access to. There are dizzying number of resources, two different huge economies that they will participate in and learn more about.
And another particular issue which is really important in a program like this, is the other students in the program. You'll be joining the program with other remarkable people.
And you learn as much from them as you will from your classroom experience.
