Katharina A. Lewellen
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Katharina Lewellen is assistant professor of business administration 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, capital structure, and corporate governance. She studies various aspects of corporate financing decisions, such as managerial incentives, taxes, and initial public offerings. In her recent work, she investigates how corporate managers time the stock market with security sales. Her current projects focus on the link between corporate governance and firm performance. Lewellen has received several honors and awards, including The Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation award and the Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship.
