Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor, Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley
Chair, Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Positions I hold
My books
Global Challenges in Responsible Business, editor, with C.B. Bhattacharya, Craig Smith and David Vogel, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
How New is the New Employment Contract?, with Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica Groshen, and K.C. O Shaughnessy, Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo MI, 2002.
Evaluation of Carve-outs in Workers Compensation Programs in the California Construction Industry, with Cristian Echeverria, Frank Neuhauser, Richard Reuben, and Jeffrey S. Petersen. 2003, Upjohn Institute, Kalamazoo MI. (A summary article appeared in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21, 3, 2002: 467-484.)
The American Workplace: Skills, Pay and Employee Involvement, editor, with Casey Ichniowski, Craig Olson, and George Strauss, Cambridge University Press, 1999. [Buy this book.]
Working in the Twenty-First Century: Government Policies for Learning, Opportunity, and Productivity, Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1998. (Table of Contents and Concluding Chapter) [Buy this book.]
Reinventing the Workplace: How Business and Employees Can Both Win, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 1995. [Buy this book]
Educational materials
King Akbar Writes a Law, illustrated by Jacqueline Zhou, 2013. A children s story on the importance of good hygiene (complete with invisible ink, threatening swords, and many surprises).
My Castle, written and illustrated by Katie Holmes, 2013.
Some policy-oriented writings
Making Workplaces Safer Through Machine Learning. With Matthew S. Johnson and Michael W. Toffel. The Regulatory Review. Feb. 26, 2024.
Cracking the Code to Creating Real World Health Change. Interview, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, May 2025.
Improving sales offers for improved stoves, CEGA blog, January 24, 2013.
Renting Inefficiency, with Lucas Davis, Energy Economics Exchange, November 26, 2012.
Exorcising phantom power, Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2012.
Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss, testimony before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Hearing on Promoting Safe Workplaces Through Voluntary Protection Programs, June 28, 2012.
Do SMS Text Messaging and SMS Community Forums Improve Outcomes of Adult and Adolescent Literacy Programs? Evidence from the Jokko Initiative in Senegal, with Theresa Beltramo. Final Report to TOSTAN and UNICEF, September 2010.
Perspectives on Corporate Governance: Executive Compensation Case in Point Concept Paper, Caseplace.org, May 2007.
Our opportunity to end poverty -- or fail to even try, San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, May 21, 2006, Page E3.
The Wheels of Washington: Groupthink and Iraq, San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, February 5, 2004, p. A23.
Editorial: Overt Discrimination by Multinational Firms, Industrial Relations, 37, 2, April 1998, pp. 121-125.
Reinventing the Workplace: How Government Can Help, San Jose Mercury News, December 25, 1995.
Brave New Work interview with Josh Clark, Mother Jones, July/Aug 1997.
Knowledge Transfer: Managerial Practices Underlying One Piece of the Learning Organization, with April Gilbert, COHRE briefing paper, 1998.
Some recent working papers and publications