About

Katharina Lewellen is Professor of Finance and the Harvey H. Bundy III T’68 Faculty Fellow at the Tuck School. She has been at Tuck since 2005. Before coming to Tuck she held a faculty position at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Professor Lewellen received a PhD from the University of Rochester and a doctorate from the University of Zurich. Earlier, she worked as an economist at the Swiss National Bank.

Professor Lewellen’s expertise is in corporate finance and corporate governance. She studies various aspects of corporate financing and investment decisions, such as managerial incentives, taxes, and financing constraints. In her recent work, she investigates incentives of large financial institution to be active shareholders in the firms they own. Her other current projects focus on governance of nonprofit hospitals. Lewellen has received several honors and awards, including The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, The Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation award and the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship.