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Katharina Lewellen is a Professor of Finance and Area Chair for Finance at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, where she has been a faculty member since 2005. Prior to joining Tuck, she held a faculty position at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Her academic career spans prestigious institutions including the University of Rochester and University of Zurich, reflecting her international scholarly background.
Education:
- PhD in Finance, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, 2003
- Doctorate in Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1997
- Master in Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1995
Katharina Lewellen's research focuses on critical areas at the intersection of corporate finance and governance, with a particular emphasis on how managerial incentives, corporate ownership structures, and institutional frameworks influence financial decision-making. Her work spans traditional corporate finance topics while increasingly incorporating healthcare finance, especially examining nonprofit hospital governance and investment decisions. She has made significant contributions to understanding CEO compensation structures, demonstrating how equity vesting schedules can create short-term incentives that compromise long-term value creation. Her recent research extends into institutional investor behavior, common ownership effects, and gender dynamics in corporate leadership and innovation.
An analysis of her publication record reveals a consistent trajectory of high-impact research in top finance journals, with a growing emphasis on healthcare finance applications over the past decade. Her work demonstrates methodological rigor through both theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses of large datasets, often revealing counterintuitive findings about how financial incentives actually operate in practice rather than as theoretically prescribed.
Scientific Awards:
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant
- Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation award
- Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
- Best Paper Award from Wharton Research Data Services
- First Prize for the 2021 Best Papers Published in the Journal of Financial Economics
- Wharton School-WRDS Award for the Best Empirical Finance Paper
- 2017 Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute Research Award
- Multinational Finance Society Best Paper Award, 21st Annual Conference
Professor Lewellen has been actively involved in the academic community through numerous conference presentations, paper discussions, and workshop leadership roles. Her research has attracted significant attention from both academic and practitioner communities, as evidenced by media coverage in major outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and The Economist. She has served on program committees for major finance conferences and regularly presents her work at leading institutions worldwide, demonstrating her standing as a respected scholar in corporate finance and governance.
Her current research activities include examining gender effects in hospital leadership, immigration impacts on healthcare finance, patent examination outcomes related to inventor gender, and governance structures of nonprofit hospitals, indicating a continued expansion of her research portfolio into socially relevant financial questions with practical implications for policy and practice.
