Kevin Kaiser

Kevin Kaiser is Senior Director of the Harris Family Alternative Investments Program and Adjunct Full Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as a Professor of Management Practice and on the finance faculty at INSEAD starting in 1992. Kevin holds a BA (Honours) in Economics from The University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Kevin’s research has focused on private equity, corporate restructuring, and financial distress. He has more recently oriented his work around corporate governance and management for value creation. In addition to his research in academic and practitioner journals and newspapers, he has co-authored two books: The Blue Line Imperative with David Young and Becoming a Top Manager with Michael Pich and I.J. Schecter.

Kevin teaches extensively in executive and degree programmes. At INSEAD, he was an eight-time recipient of the MBA award for Best Teacher for Electives and a three-time recipient of the EMBA award for Best Teacher for Electives. In 2016, he received INSEAD’s award for Outstanding Contribution to Executive Education. From there, he joined Wharton’s faculty in 2017.

In 2013, Kevin was a finalist for the Economist Intelligence Unit’s world-wide Business Professor of the Year competition. He brings to his classroom a deep knowledge of academic theory coupled with real-world experience working in the Corporate Finance and Strategy practice of McKinsey & Co. (1997-1999), and as a principal in bfinance.com, a venture capital-financed marketplace for business finance (1999-2002).