Scott Schaefer is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and David Eccles Professor of Finance at the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business. He is also an Investigator with the Institute for Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah.
Professor Schaefer joined the David Eccles School faculty in 2005, and became Associate Dean in 2009. He had previously spent ten years on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he earned tenure in 2001 and held the Richard M. Paget Chair in Management Policy from 2001 to 2005.
Professor Schaefer's research focuses on the economics of organization, with an emphasis on understanding employment relationships and decision-making inside firms. He has written extensively on executive compensation, the use of stock options in compensation, the labor market effects of employment protections such as the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and the labor market for attorneys. His research has been published widely in top academic journals in Economics, Management, Finance and Accounting. He is co-author of "Economics of Strategy," a leading textbook in the field of strategic management, founder and organizer of the Utah Winter Business Economics Conference, associate editor of The Journal of Labor Economics, and an active blogger on economic issues of relevance to Utah.
At Utah, Professor Schaefer has taught a variety of economics-based business courses. He has taught core microeconomics to undergraduates, MBAs, and Executive MBAs. He has also taught a variety of MBA electives, and contributed to PhD courses on Information Economics. He has won two teaching awards at the David Eccles School of Business: the Masters Teaching Exellence Award (2008) and the Brady Superior Teaching Award (2009).
At Kellogg, Professor Schaefer developed and taught MBA electives on strategic organization design and human resource management, and led a PhD seminar on organizational economics. He received Kellogg's Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award three times, and was a four-time finalist for the Lawrence Lavengood Professor of the Year Award.
Scott Schaefer earned a PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1995. He holds a bachelors degree from Stanford University, with a double-major in Economics and Mathematical and Computational Sciences.