Karen Wruck is an expert in financial and organizational economics, with special emphasis on corporate finance, valuation, restructuring, financial distress, corporate governance, and management compensation.
Expert testimony in finance matters
Professor Wruck has been retained as an expert witness in numerous matters and has testified in deposition.
Her experience spans matters related to the assessment of damages and the valuation of companies, subparts of companies, corporate investment projects, and asset portfolios. She has also worked on matters related to financial distress and insolvency, corporate restructuring, executive compensation, governance, insider trading, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
Academic research in leading financial economics publications
Professor Wruck has published many articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Corporate Finance.
Her work has been cited in the press and has appeared in practitioner-oriented journals such as the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. She has also served as associate editor for top finance and accounting journals.
Two of Professor Wruck’s publications, one on private equity (PE) and the other on management turnover, were named by the Journal of Financial Economics as being among its most highly cited “all-star” papers.
Finance teaching, leadership, and faculty awards
At Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business, Professor Wruck teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in applied managerial economics, corporate finance, international finance, M&A, and corporate restructuring. Students in the M.B.A. and executive M.B.A. programs have repeatedly named Professor Wruck as an outstanding professor.
Professor Wruck has served in senior leadership positions at the Fisher College, including senior associate dean, with responsibility for all of Fisher’s degree-granting academic programs and major operating units within the College. She received Fisher College’s Bostic-Georges Faculty Service Award and the Mary Ann Williams Leadership Award, which recognize extraordinary service and leadership at Ohio State.
Previously, Professor Wruck was a member of the Harvard Business School faculty.