Michael Gibbs

Michael Gibbs studies the economics of human resources and organizational design. He is coauthor of Personnel Economics in Practice., which has been translated into 5 languages other than English. Gibbs's research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy – Microeconomics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics & Statistics, Nature Scientific Reports, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Accounting Review, and other journals. Professor Gibbs is a Research Fellow of Institute of Labor Economics, and the Institute for Compensation Studies. He is on the editorial advisory boards of Compensation & Benefits Review, & the Journal of Wine Economics.

In 2007 Gibbs received the Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature from the American Accounting Association. He has received four Hillel Einhorn Excellence in Teaching Awards from Chicago Booth.

Gibbs earned a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and doctoral degree in economics all from the University of Chicago.

From 2012-2015, he was Faculty Director of Chicago Booth's Executive MBA Program.