Scott Schaefer
Scott Schaefer is Professor of Finance and David Eccles Faculty Fellow 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 Eccles School faculty in 2005. He had previously spent ten years on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management, where he 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, use of stock options in compensation, and the labor market effects of employment protections such as the Civil Rights Act of 1991. His research has been published widely in top academic journals in Economics, Management, Finance and Accounting. He is a co-author of "Economics of Strategy," a leading textbook in the field of strategic management, and founder of the Utah Winter Business Economics Conference.
At Utah, Professor Schaefer teaches a variety of economics-based business courses, including core microeconomics for undergraduates, MBAs and executives. 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 in economics and math from Stanford University.
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Ph.D., 1995, Economic Analysis and Policy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
B.A.S., 1990, Economics, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Stanford University, with Distinction -
Visiting Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2012-present
Kendall D. Garff Chair in Business Administration, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2011-present
Professor of Finance, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, 2007-present
Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Visiting Professor, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University, 2012
Visiting Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2008
Richard M. Paget Associate Professor of Management Policy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001-2005
Visiting Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1995-2005
Strategies for Growth (STRTX-475-0)
"Strategies for Growth" is about effectively scaling a business. Because growth is an imperative for many organizations, it is crucial to understand the strategic fundamentals underpinning profitable growth. Therefore, the course connects frameworks from economics and strategy to the experiences of firms attempting growth initiatives to illustrate why some businesses can scale successfully while others struggle. The cases and examples in this course will focus on "middle-market" companies - organizations that are beyond the initial startup stage and are explicitly looking to expand their business. The case materials include first-person accounts of the challenges of growth for these companies, as collected in interviews conducted during the research stage of my "Roadside MBA" project (www.roadside-mba.com). The cases will be supplemented with discussions of strategy frameworks that can be used to extrapolate from experiences of these specific firms to general insights about growth and scaling.
