Benjamin Campbell Faculty Profile

Benjamin Campbell
Assistant Professor of Management

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2002; BS, Ohio State University, 1996

Research Areas
Human resource management in high-tech firms; personnel economics in start-ups; employee stock options

Current Projects
Current research explores human resource strategies of firms in high-tech industries. Specifically, the relationship between the rate of technological change and firms' human resource strategies; the long-term career implications of working for high-tech start-ups; the effect of stock options on worker retention.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2004-present

Other Positions
Co-Founder, GetSkilz, inc, 2000-2003

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Sloan Post-Doctoral Fellow, Sloan Foundation, 2003-2004.

Representative Publications
(with C.Brown)
"The Impact of Technological Change on Work and Wages." Industrial Relations 41 (January 2002).

(with C.Brown)
"Technical Change, Wages, and Employment in Semiconductor Manufacturing." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54 (July 2001).

(with C. Brown and S. Raphael)
"High-Tech Industries in California: Panacea or Problem?" in Paul Ong and Jim Lincoln, eds. Policy Issues Facing the California Labor Market, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC-Berkeley, 2000.