The Money of Invention & the Future of Entrepreneurship
Josh Lerner
Wednesday, 04 Nov 2015 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School and a recognized leader on innovation, the economy, and job creation. His many books include The Money of Invention, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Innovation and Its Discontents, and Architecture of Innovation. Much of his work focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations. He also examines policies towards innovation, and how they impact investment firm strategies. 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. Part of the Economics Forum and National Affairs Series: When American Values Are in ConflictJosh Lerner 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 of the largest elective courses at Harvard Business School. He also teaches a doctoral course on entrepreneurship and in the Owners-Presidents-Managers Program, and organizes executive courses on private equity in Boston and Beijing.
He is the winner of the Swedish government’s 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Research Award and has recently been named one of the 100 most influential people in private equity over the past decade by Private Equity International magazine.
He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major which combined physics with the history of technology.
Cosponsored By:
- College of Business
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Economics
- National Affairs
- Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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