Bård Harstad
The David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy
Professor, Doerr School of Sustainability
Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences
Srivani Faculty Fellow for 2024–2025
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Bio
Harstad held the Max McGraw Chair in Management & Environment, Kellogg School of Management, and was a professor at the University of Oslo, before coming to Stanford in 2023. He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, and Toulouse School of Economics.
Research Interests
- Environmental Economics
- Political Economics
- Economic Theory
Awards and Honors
- HumSam Prize, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, 2023
- Advanced Grant, European Research Council (ERC), 2022
- Elected Fellow, Econometric Society, 2021
- Elected Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2021
- Consolidator Grant, ERC, 2016–21
- Erik Kempe Award (with Torben Mideksa), European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019
- Fellow, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, 2019
- Starting Grant, ERC, 2012–16
- Erik Kempe Award, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2013
- Fridtjof Nansen Award for Young Researchers, 2013
- Morgenbladet’s top ten young scholars in Norway, 2012
- Sandmo Junior Visiting Fellowship, NHH, 2008
- Arnbergska Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2006
- Nasjonalgaven til Chr. Michelsen, 2000
Service to the Profession
- Editor, Review of Economic Studies
Journal Articles
Working Papers
Book Chapters
Degree Courses
Non-Degree Courses
Programs and Non-Degree Courses
Executive Education & Other Non-Degree Programs
Anticipate and develop strategies to address critical beyond-market forces, from legislation and regulation to activism and the media.