John W. Budd is a professor in the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management where he holds an Industrial Relations Landgrant Professorship. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. Professor Budd has taught labor relations to undergraduates, professional Master's students, and Ph.D. candidates and has received multiple departmental teaching awards as well as an Excellence in Education award from the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA). He has served on the IRRA's Education Committee and has published journal articles on teaching labor relations. Professor Budd's main research interests are in industrial relations, especially labor relations. He is the author of the award-winning Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice (Cornell University Press), a co-editor of The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (Labor and Employment Relations Association), and has published numerous articles in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Labor Economics, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the Journal of Industrial Relations, Labor Studies Journal, and other journals and edited volumes. He received the IRRA Outstanding Young Scholar Award in 1998 and serves on the editorial boards of Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Working USA. Professor Budd is also Director of Graduate Studies for the University of Minnesota's graduate programs in Human Resources and Industrial Relations, one of the oldest and largest such graduate programs in the United States. He is a distant cousin of Frederick Winslow Taylor.