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Belen Villalonga

  • William R. Berkley Professor in Management and Finance

Joined Stern 2012

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Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Tisch Hall

40 West Fourth Street, 7-21

New York, NY 10012

About Belen Villalonga

Belén Villalonga is the William R. Berkley Professor in Management and Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Between 2001 and 2012 she was a faculty member at the Harvard Business School.

Professor Villalonga’s work focuses on family business, corporate strategy and corporate governance. She has written several articles on how family ownership and control influence firms’ governance and strategy and, ultimately, their performance. She has also studied extensively the area of corporate diversification. She has developed and taught courses and programs for graduate and undergraduate students as well as for executives and business families. Her award-winning research has been published in leading academic journals, has been cited about 20,000 times in scholarly articles, and has been featured in the leading international media outlets.

Professor Villalonga serves or has served as an independent director on the board of several companies that are global leaders in their respective industries: Técnicas Reunidas (engineering); Ferroglobe (mining & metallurgy); Mapfre USA (insurance); Banco Santander International (private banking); Grifols (biopharma); Acciona (renewable energy & infrastructure); and Talgo (high-speed trains).

She holds a Ph.D. in Management and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. She also holds a second Ph.D. in Business Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is fluent in Spanish, English, and French, and conversant in Portuguese and Italian.

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  • Management and Organizations
  • Family business
  • Strategic ownership
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate strategy
  • Corporate finance
  • Finance
    • Valuation
  • Management
    • Corporate Governance
    • Corporate Strategy
    • Family Businesses
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Managing Family Businesses
  • Corporate Strategy
  • Competitive Strategy

  • Ph.D., Management, 2001

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Ph.D., Economic and Management Sciences, 2000

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • M.A., Economics, 1998

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • B.A., Economic and Management Sciences, 1991

    Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid

  • 25th Anniversary Award for the most influential paper published in JCF since its founding, Journal of Corporate Finance (2018)

  • Visiting Scholar and founding team member, The Ownership Project, SAID Business School, Oxford University (2018)

  • Second Prize, 2010-2012 Pearson Best Paper Prize, Financial Management (2012)

  • Junior Faculty Recipient, Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students, Harvard Business School (2010)

  • Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for the best paper in the Finance Working Paper series, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) (2007)

  • Andre Hoffman Visiting Professor of Family Enterprise, INSEAD (2007)

  • Associate Professor, Finance Unit, 2006 - 2012, Harvard Business School (2006)

  • Best Unpublished Research Paper Award, Family Firms Institute (2006)

  • First Prize, 2004 Brattle Prize for outstanding papers, Journal of Finance (2005)

  • First Prize, 2002-2004 Addison-Wesley Best Paper Prize, Financial Management (2004)

  • Assistant Professor, Finance Unit, 2001 - 2006, Harvard Business School (2001)

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