Dec 30 2009
Dr. Josh Lerner
Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School
Dr. Josh Lerner recently led an international team of scholars in a study of the economic impact of private equity for the World Economic Forum. He founded, raised funding for and organizes two groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research: Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy. He is a member of a number of other NBER groups and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. At Harvard, his research focuses on the structure and the role of private equity organizations.
“Renowned Harvard Business School professor”
Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major which combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Economics Department. In the 1993-94 academic year, he introduced an elective MBA course on private equity and venture capital that has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at HBS. [/expand]
An advisor to a select group of private equity funds and major institutional investors, Josh Lerner helps his global audiences identify and respond to key trends in the private equity industry. He also examines the impact of intellectual property protection, particularly patents, on the competitive strategies of firms in high-technology industries. He presents at conferences and meetings organized by numerous accounting firms, investment banks, intellectual property trade associations, law firms, other intermediaries, private equity groups, publications and national venture capital and private equity associations.[/expand]
With a warm and genuine style, Josh Lerner skilfully does away with some of the myths surrounding private equity in his highly informative presentations.[/expand]
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Topics
Private Equity
Venture Capital
Investment Banking
Patents
Publications
2009
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do About It (The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
2008
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook by Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon & Ann Leamon
2006
Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It (with Adam B. Jaffe)
2001
The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth (with Paul A. Gompers)
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