Josh Lerner

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Josh Lerner
Alma mater Yale University
Harvard University
OccupationEconomist
Employer Harvard Business School

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 2023-06-16 he has 165 indexed publications and a Hirsch index of 66, which puts him in top 5% of economics researchers in the USA. [1] His research encompasses investments, startups, venture capital and private equity.

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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:

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  6. "The Abraaj Academy: A talk with Professor Josh Lerner". youtube.com. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
  7. Wiggins, Kaye (3 August 2021). "The Key Man by Simon Clark and Will Louch — money for nothing". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  8. Clark, Simon (2021). The Key Man (First ed.). London: Penguin Business. p. 289. ISBN   978-0-241-43910-4.
  9. Kerr, Simeon (15 June 2019). "US prosecutors widen probe into collapse of Abraaj". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  10. "2010 Josh Lerner – Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research" . Retrieved 2023-04-08.