Tiltrædelsesforelæsning: Prof Ed Lazear

Speaker: Edward Lazear

Title: An Economist’s Approach to Leadership

Held at Porcelænshaven 24B, 4th floor, Room PH408

On the occasion of Professor Edward P. Lazear’s conferment as Honorary Doctor at CBS we take great pleasure in inviting you to this seminar in connection with CBS’ Annual Celebration 2013.

Edward Lazear is Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources Management and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is a founder of a field known as personnel economics. His research centers on employee incentives, promotions, compensation, and productivity in firms. He also has devoted study to culture and language, with an emphasis on explaining the rise in multiculturalism in the United States. Recent work includes an already widely known theory of educational production. His current research is on entrepreneurship, leadership, and its relation to personnel economics.

He has published several books including the influential tome Personnel Economics and numerous journal articles in top journals. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ed holds a number of honorary degrees.

He was Chairman, President’s Council of Economic Advisers, The White House (2006-09).

Ed Lazear has inspired many colleagues at CBS and has close ties to the Department of Economics.