Benjamin Campbell

Background

Benjamin Campbell is an Associate Professor of Management and Human Resources at the Max M. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He received a PhD in economics from UCBerkeley and has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the Ohio State University.

Dr. Campbell teaches the core Organizations, Markets, and Management course in the MBA program.  For this course, he has been named the “Outstanding FullTime MBA Core Professor” in 2010, 2012, and 2013 and the “Outstanding Working Professional MBA Core Professor” in 2011 and 2014. He was the recipient of the 2011Pace Setters Westerbeck Graduate Teaching Award and was nominated for the 2013 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Dr. Campbell’s research explores the boundary conditions of mechanisms that limit the mobility of human capital to established and entrepreneurial firms and thus adds to the understanding of the role of human capital in creating and sustaining competitive advantage in dynamic environments. His research has appeared in outlets including Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Industrial Relations, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.  His research has been named the runnerup for the 2014 INFORMSIndustry Studies Association Best Paper Prize and the runnerup for the 2009 Best Conference Paper at the Strategic Management Society.

He has served the community of scholars as the elected representativeatlarge for the Strategic Management Society’s Strategic Human Capital Interest group, as a member of the Research Committee of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, and as a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Strategic Organizations.  He has also coorganized multiple conferences on Human Capital, including the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group’s miniconference on the Value Proposition of Human Capital. 

Areas of Expertise

Human Capital Employee Mobility Employee Entrepreneurship Labor Markets Knowledge Transfer

Education

PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley B.Sc. in Mathematics, The Ohio State University

Courses

BUSFIN 7702 Applied Managerial Economics for Health Sciences

To provide an economicsoriented framework for analyzing managerial and organizational problems, and to further the understanding of how a health science firm's internal rules of the game affect behavior and performance. Prereq: Admission into the Business Minor in Health Sciences.

MBA 6240 Organizations, Markets and ManagementEMBA

Microeconomics from a management and organizational perspective, developing a framework grounded in the fundamentals of economic theory. Prereq: Enrollment in Executive MBA program or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 812.

MBA 6243 Organizations, Markets and Management

Microeconomics from a management and organizational perspective, developing a framework grounded in the fundamentals of economic theory. Prereq: Enrollment in MBA or WPMBA program, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 6241 or 812.

BUSMHR 7302 Markets, Organizations, and HRM

The employment relationship from an economic perspective; economic analysis applied to important managerial decisions involving the coordination and motivation of organizational members. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 854.

BUSMHR 7345 HR Bargaining

Human Resource Managers need both analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems and good bargaining skills to effectively implement those solutions. Through this course, students will learn the major concepts and theories of bargaining in human resource management and develop expertise in the practice of bargaining in a variety of human resource management settings.