Brian J. Hall

NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School

Albert H. Gordon Professor

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Boston, MA 02163

United States

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Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

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Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Dec 2000
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Executive Compensation, Incentives, Stock Options, Risk Aversion

Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

NBER Working Paper No. w8052
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2022
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Stock Options for Undiversified Executives

Posted: 30 Apr 2002
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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executive compensation, incentives, stock options, risk aversion

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The Trouble with Stock Options

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The Trouble with Stock Options

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Jun 2003
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Executive compensation, stock options, equity-based pay, CEO pay, corporate governance, executive labor markets

The Trouble with Stock Options

NBER Working Paper No. w9784
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jun 2003 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2022
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Are CEOS Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

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Are CEOS Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 27 Apr 1997
Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Are CEOS Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

NBER Working Paper No. w6213
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 14 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 25 Dec 2022
Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Are CEOS Really Paid Like Bureaucrats?

Posted: 13 Aug 1998
Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options

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The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Aug 1998
Brian J. Hall
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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The Pay to Performance Incentives of Executive Stock Options

NBER Working Paper No. w6674
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2022
Brian J. Hall
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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CEO Incentives and Firm Size

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CEO Incentives and Firm Size

Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 99-060
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Dec 1998
George P. Baker and Brian J. Hall
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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CEO Incentives and Firm Size

NBER Working Paper No. w6868
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2022
George P. Baker and Brian J. Hall
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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CEO Incentives and Firm Size

Posted: 13 Nov 2002
George P. Baker and Brian J. Hall
HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School

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Stock Options, Corporate Governance, Incentives, Executive Compensation, CEO Compensation

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Managing Option Fragility

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Managing Option Fragility

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jun 2002
Brian J. Hall and Thomas Knox
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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Managing Option Fragility

NBER Working Paper No. w9059
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Jul 2002 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2002
Brian J. Hall and Thomas Knox
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School
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Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options

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Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Jun 2000
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options

NBER Working Paper No. w7548
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2022
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Optimal Exercise Prices for Executive Stock Options

Posted: 26 Jun 2001
Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
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Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

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Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

Harvard Business School 99-027
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Oct 1998
Brian J. Hall
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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Regulatory Free Cash Flow and the High Cost of Insurance Company Failures

NBER Working Paper No. w6837
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 12 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Brian J. Hall
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

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Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

CESifo Working Paper No. 8168
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 31 Mar 2020
Benjamin Enke, Uri Gneezy, Brian J. Hall, David Martin, Vadim Nelidov, Theo Offerman and Jeroen van de Ven
Harvard University, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics & Econometrics (FEE) and University of Amsterdam
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cognitive biases, incentives

Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

NBER Working Paper No. w28650
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 12 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2023
Benjamin Enke, Uri Gneezy, Brian J. Hall, David C. Martin, Vadim Nelidov, Theo Offerman and Jeroen van de Ven
Harvard University, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics & Econometrics (FEE) and University of Amsterdam
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Six Challenges in Designing Equity-Based Pay

NBER Working Paper No. w9887
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2022
Brian J. Hall
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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The Taxation of Executive Compensation

NBER Working Paper No. w7596
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2022
Brian J. Hall and Jeffrey B. Liebman
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Permanent Homelessness in America?

NBER Working Paper No. w2013
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2022
Richard B. Freeman and Brian J. Hall
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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Risk-Based Capital Standards and the Riskiness of Bank Portfolios: Credit and Factor Risks

NBER Working Paper No. w5178
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2022
Steven R. Grenadier and Brian J. Hall
Stanford Graduate School of Business and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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Property and Casualty Solvency Funds as a Tax and Social Insurance System

NBER Working Paper No. w5206
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2022
James G. Bohn and Brian J. Hall
The Brattle Group and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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The Myth of the Patient Japanese: Corporate Myopia and Financial Distress in Japan and the Us

NBER Working Paper No. w5818
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2022
Brian J. Hall and David E. Weinstein
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and Columbia University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Department of Economics
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The Moral Hazard of Insuring the Insurers

NBER Working Paper No. w5911
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
Brian J. Hall and James G. Bohn
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School and The Brattle Group
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Recruiting Andrew Yard (B)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit case no. 911-029
Posted: 19 Mar 2012
Brian J. Hall, Nicole Bennett and Sara Nido
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University

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Recruiting Andrew Yard (A)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit case no. 911-028
Posted: 16 Mar 2012
Brian J. Hall, Nicole Bennett and Sara Nido
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University

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Recruiting Andrew Yard (C)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit case no. 911-030
Posted: 16 Mar 2012
Brian J. Hall, Nicole Bennett and Sara Nido
NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Harvard University

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