Donald B. Hausch is the Dickson-Bascom Professor in the Management and Human Resources Department of the Wisconsin School of Business. His main area of interest is managerial economics.

His research has explored the game-theoretic analysis of auctions and competitive bidding, with a special focus on information acquired prior to and discerned through the auction process itself. He also has researched bankruptcy reorganization and financial restructuring through negotiations and security design, the design of contracts and their ability to achieve efficient trade outcomes, and an empirical investigation of market inefficiency.

Hausch has co-authored two books and two edited volumes, and written numerous articles that have been published in the American Economic Review, Review of Financial Studies, International Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Business, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Economic Theory, RAND Journal of Economics, and other journals. He was an associate editor of Management Science for 10 year. He has consulted for the World Bank on the resolution of systemic financial distress, and he received a Vilas Research Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hausch teaches the managerial economics course in the full-time MBA core program, the Evening MBA, and the Executive MBA. He has also taught advanced masters/Ph.D. courses on economics of organization and on game theory. He served four years as the director of the Executive MBA program and three years as Associate Dean for the MBA program. He was awarded the Jerred Service Award from the Wisconsin School of Business.

His Ph.D. is from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management in managerial economics and decision sciences.