Josh Lerner Explained

Josh Lerner
Alma Mater:Yale University
Harvard University
Employer:Harvard Business School
Occupation:Economist

Josh Lerner is an American economist known for his research in venture capital, private equity, and innovation and entrepreneurship. He is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at the Harvard Business School. According to Web of Science on June 16, 2023, he has 165 indexed publications and a Hirsch index of 66, and over 74,000 citations on Google Scholar, which puts him in top 5% of economics researchers in the USA.[1] His research encompasses investments, startups, venture capital and private equity.

Early life

Josh Lerner graduated from Yale University, and he earned a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.[2] [3]

Career

Lerner worked for the Brookings Institution.[3] He was also a research fellow in the International Security program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 1990-1991.[4] He later joined the faculty at the Harvard Business School, where he was eventually promoted as the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking.[2] [3] He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.[3]

Lerner is the author of several books. He won the Axiom Business Book Award and the PROSE Award for Excellence in Business for Boulevard of Broken Dreams in 2009.[2]

Between 2008 and 2010 Lerner was a member of the Advisory Board of The Abraaj Group and a paid consultant to the firm until 2017.[5] As well as authoring HBS case studies on the firm and leading the Abraaj Academy,[6] Lerner wrote a report used by Abraaj as a validation of its own questionable portfolio valuation methodologies,[7] later described by Lerner as an inadvertent mistake.[8] Abraaj filed for provisional liquidation in 2018 with the founder Arif Naqvi the subject of a criminal investigation in the United States for the misappropriation of $250 million in investor funding.[9]

Lerner received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research in 2010.[10]

Selected publications

Books

Lerner is an author and co-author of several books including:

Notes and References

  1. https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/10720686
  2. Web site: Josh Lerner. Harvard Business School. March 22, 2017.
  3. Web site: Professor Josh Lerner. European Corporate Governance Institute. March 22, 2017.
  4. Web site: Josh Lerner. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. March 22, 2017.
  5. Book: Clark . Simon . The Key Man . 2021 . Penguin Business . London . 978-0-241-43910-4 . 127 . First.
  6. Web site: The Abraaj Academy: A talk with Professor Josh Lerner . youtube.com . 16 August 2021.
  7. News: Wiggins . Kaye . The Key Man by Simon Clark and Will Louch — money for nothing . 14 August 2021 . Financial Times . 3 August 2021.
  8. Book: Clark . Simon . The Key Man . 2021 . Penguin Business . London . 978-0-241-43910-4 . 289 . First.
  9. News: Kerr . Simeon . US prosecutors widen probe into collapse of Abraaj . 14 August 2021 . Financial Times . 15 June 2019.
  10. Web site: 2010 Josh Lerner – Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research . 2023-04-08 . en-US.

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