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Josh Lerner Josh Lerner is the Jacob H.
Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard
Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. He
graduated from Much of his research focuses on
the structure and role of venture capital and private equity
organizations. (This research is
collected in three books, The
Venture Capital Cycle, The
Money of Invention, and Boulevard
of Broken Dreams.) He also
examines policies towards innovation, and how they impact firm
strategies. (The research is discussed
in the books Innovation
and Its Discontents, The
Comingled Code, and the forthcoming Architecture of Innovation.) He co-directs the National Bureau of
Economic Research’s Productivity,
Research, and Innovation Program and serves as co-editor of their
publication, Innovation Policy and the
Economy. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute, a non-profit devoted to encouraging data access
to and research about venture capital and private equity. In the 1993-94 academic year, he introduced an elective course for second-year
MBAs on private equity finance. In
recent years, “Venture Capital and Private Equity” has consistently been one
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Josh Lerner:
- Short biographical summary (PDF file).
- Curriculum vita (PDF file).
- Innovation and Its Discontents.
- Publications (HTML file, with links).
- Other Biographical Information (HTML file).
- Course Syllabus, “Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Entrepreneurship.”
- World Economic Forum Private Equity Study.
- Josh’s official HBS portrait.
- A less official picture!
Venture Capital and Private Equity:
- Course (and Book) Overview
- Course (and Book) Outline
- Private Equity Fundraising: An Overview
- Private Equity Investing: An Overview
- Exiting Private Equity Investments: An Overview
- Transplanting the Private Equity Model: An Overview
- Private Equity in Developing Countries
- Information Sources about Private Equity
- Private Equity Bibliography
- Private Equity Links
Intellectual Property:
- Introduction to the Economics of Patents
- Introduction to the Economics of Trade Secrecy
- Innovation Policy and the Economy Group
- Earlier NBER Intellectual Property Workshops
- Bibliography on the Economics of Patents and Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property Links
Other Links:
- Harvard Business School
- HBS Finance Area
- HBS Entrepreneurial Management Area
- National Bureau of Economic Research
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