Michael C. Jensen

Michael C. Jensen is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business, Emeritus, Harvard Business School. He is the originator of the mutual fund performance metric known as Jensen's alpha. Jensen's main field of study is in the realm of corporate finance. His paper,Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure is widely cited.

Other interests
Jensen is a co-founding editor of the Journal of Financial Economics. The journal's annual prize for best article, the Jensen Prize, is named after Jensen.

Jensen is a trustee of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).