John Bizjak
Professor and Chair
Robert and Maria Lowdon Chair of Business Administration
Robert and Maria Lowdon Chair of Business Administration
Finance Department
Education
- PhD, University of Utah
- BA, University of California Berkeley
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Corporate Finance
- Law & Economics
Professional Experience and Consulting
- Academic Fellow, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 2002 to 2004
- Incentive Labs LLC, Compensation Analyst
- Equity Methods LLC, Valuation Consultant
Selected Publications
- “The Choice of Peers for Relative Performance Evaluation in Executive Compensation” with Swami Kalpathy, Frank Li, and Brian Young, Review of Finance, April 2022.
- “CEO Political Leanings and Store-Level Economic Activity during Covid-19 Crisis: Effects on Shareholder Value and Public Health,” with Swami Kalpathy, Vassil Mihov, and Jue Ren, Journal of Finance, August 2022.
- "Performance Contingencies in CEO Equity Awards and Debt Contracting," with Swami Kalpathy and Vassil Mihov, The Accounting Review, September 2019.
- “Performance-Vesting Provisions in Executive Compensation,” with Carr Bettis, Jeff Coles, and Swami Kalpathy, Journal of Accounting and Economics, August 2018.
- “Are all CEOs above Average? An Empirical Analysis of Compensation Peer Groups and Pay Design,” with Mike Lemmon and Thanh Ngyuen, Journal of Financial Economics, June 2011.
Honors and Awards
- 2015 J.R. Beyster Fellowship, for “Performance-contingent equity awards to nonexecutive employees.”
- 2014 EFMA Larry Lang Award, Best Paper in Corporate Governance, “Performance-Vesting Provisions in Executive Compensation.”
- AACSB/GMAC National Doctoral Fellowship in Business and Management - 1989
- Distinction at graduate, University of California, Berkeley - 1983