Mike Jensen was one of the most influential, well-known and cited economists of the last fifty years. He trained at the University of Chicago where he earned an MBA in Finance and a PhD in Economics, Finance and Accounting.
In 1984, he left Rochester and joined Harvard Business School where he held the Jesse Isidor Straus Chair in Business Administration. He founded the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets Unit from which the influential course Coordination, Control and Management of Organizations emerged ( CCMO) Jensen's research career is certainly unique as he begins working in the area of valuation and capital markets. He also encouraged the opening of an innovative section in the Journal of Financial Economics, which he is Founding Editor of. In addition to research itself, Jensen was also a visionary of the need to disseminate and bring specific knowledge to academics and practitioners, says W. Marr Wruck, Editor of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), founded in 1994 by him and W. Wruck.