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David Weil

David Weil is Professor of Economics and Everett W. Lord Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Boston University School of Management and Co-Director of the Transparency Policy Project at the Taubman Center, Kennedy School of Government. His research spans the areas of labor market policy, industrial and labor relations, occupational safety and health, and regulatory policy. He has published widely in these areas, and has also served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and other government agencies on a variety of projects. His research in this area has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. In addition, Weil has been a principal investigator of the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research, at Harvard University since the Center's founding in 1991. Findings from this multi-year research project can be found in his recent book, A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing—Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries, co-authored with Fred Abernathy, John Dunlop, and Jan Hammond all of Harvard and published by Oxford University Press. Weil received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Public Policy from Harvard University.