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Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics

Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Senior Associate Dean - Faculty and Research

Portrait of Timothy Feddersen, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Professor Timothy Feddersen joined the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management in 1995. He is the Wendell Hobbs Professor of Managerial Politics. Professor Feddersen's research centers on the manner in which elections aggregate dispersed information; the linkage between information and participation in elections; modeling ethically motivated agents in games; bargaining in legislatures; and the informal role of activists in the economy. He is currently serving as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at Kellogg. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

His recent research has investigated the structure of optimal law and the value of transparency in advisory committees. Professor Feddersen also teaches several classes at Kellogg including Leadership and Strategic Crisis Management as well as Ethics and Leadership. These classes focus on the way leaders must anticipate the reaction of stakeholder groups both within and outside the organization including in the media, in legislatures, courts and in public opinion broadly. 

About Timothy
Research interests
  • Professor Feddersen's research centers on the manner in which elections aggregate dispersed information; the linkage between information and participation in elections; modeling ethically motivated agents in games; bargaining in legislatures; and the informal role of activists in the economy. He is currently investigating the impact of money in politics on the emergence of income inequality as well as the value of transparency in advisory committees.
Teaching interests
  • Professor Feddersen also teaches several classes at Kellogg including Leadership and Strategic Crisis Management
  • Values-Based Leadership and Strategy in the Nonmarket Environment. All of these classes focus on the way leaders must anticipate the reaction of stakeholder groups both within and outside the organization including in the media
  • in legislatures
  • courts and in public opinion broadly.
  • PhD, 1993, Political Science, University of Rochester
    BA, 1985, Mathematics, Indiana University
  • Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1998-present
    Assistant Professor, Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1995-1998
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1992-1995
  • Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
    Voted into membership, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
    Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2009-2010
    Stanley Reiter Best Paper Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2002

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