Rate My Professor Rik Sen

Rik Sen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, where he has served since August 2023. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the UNSW Business School from November 2016 to July 2023, including as Deputy Head of Research in the School of Banking and Finance from January to July 2023. From July 2009 to October 2016, he held an Assistant Professor position at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School. He also served as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Miami from August 2014 to May 2015 and Visiting Scholar at Boston College from August to November 2012. Sen earned his Ph.D. in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business in 2009, a Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications and Management equivalent to an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 2002, and a B.Stat. (Honors) from the Indian Statistical Institute in 2000. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Manager in the Structured Products and Portfolio Modeling Group at ICICI Bank in India from 2002 to 2004.

Sen's research specializes in corporate finance, corporate governance, executive and employee compensation, non-profit finance, behavioral finance, and household finance, with specific investigations into employee stock purchase plans, stakeholder relationships and takeover threats, insider brokering, and regulation-induced corporate social responsibility. His publications appear in premier journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Key works include 'Money Left on the Table: An Analysis of Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plans' with Ilona Babenko (Review of Financial Studies, 2014), 'Stocking Up: Executive Optimism, Option Exercise, and Share Retention' with Robert Tumarkin (Journal of Financial Economics, 2015), 'Inside Brokers' with Weikai Li and Abhiroop Mukherjee (Journal of Financial Economics, 2021), 'Discipline or Disruption? Stakeholder Relationships and the Effect of Takeover Threat' with Ling Cen and Sudipto Dasgupta (Management Science, 2016), and 'Regulating CEO Pay: Evidence from the Nonprofit Revitalization Act' with Ilona Babenko and Benjamin Bennett (Review of Financial Studies, 2026). Sen has presented at conferences including the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, European Finance Association, and Financial Intermediation Research Society meetings. His accolades include Best Paper Awards at the Northern Finance Association 2010, Financial Research Network 2021 and 2018 (Corporate Governance), finalist for the Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence at HKUST (2010, 2012, 2013), and research grants from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. He serves as Associate Editor for the International Review of Finance since 2019 and has taught doctoral, master's, and undergraduate courses in corporate finance, empirical methods, and decentralized finance at UNSW, HKUST, and the University of Miami.