Joining Tuck in fall 2005 as associate professor of business administration is Jonathan W. Lewellen. Lewellen most recently taught as Jon D. Gruber Associate Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management and continues to serve as a faculty research fellow in the asset pricing program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In the fall term, Lewellen taught two sections of the Capital Markets core course. His areas of expertise include investments, stock market efficiency, and the financial aspects of managerial decisions, and his current research topics include the tax effects of financing decisions, tests of conditional asset-pricing models, herding and price pressure in stock markets, and investors' reaction to earnings announcements. Lewellen received a BS from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and an MS and PhD from the Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.
Katharina Lewellen joined Tuck as assistant professor of business administration in fall 2005, having served most recently as assistant professor of finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Lewellen's areas of expertise include corporate finance, capital structure, and corporate governance, and she is currently researching executive compensation, taxes and capital structure, corporate put options sales, and venture-capital financing. Lewellen will be teaching in the corporate finance area. She received master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a PhD from the Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, New York.
Aviad Pe'er joined the Tuck faculty as visiting assistant professor of business administration in fall 2005, teaching the Advanced Entrepreneurship course in the fall term. Pe'er's areas of expertise include entrepreneurship, business policy and strategy, and urban economics, and he is currently researching location choices of new enterprises, determinants of new venture failure, industry clusters, the life cycle of joint ventures and strategic alliances, and divestiture of venture-capital investments. Pe'er previously held instructor positions at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel; as part of the Israeli Air Force; and at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Pe'er holds two BSc degrees and an MSc from the Technion Institute and a PhD from the Sauder School at the University of British Columbia.
Robert Shumsky came to Tuck in fall 2005 as associate professor of business administration, from his most recent position as associate professor of operations management at the Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester. Shumsky is an expert in operations management and is currently researching improving quality and efficiency in service operations, the dynamic control of flexible service capacity, and airline revenue management. Shumsky taught two sections of the core Decision Science course during the fall term at Tuck. He received an AB from Harvard College and an MS and PhD from MIT.
