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 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. Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organisations.

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Financial innovation today and tomorrow
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- Productivity and Innovation

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How disruptive technologies diffuse
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- Productivity and Innovation 
- Labour Markets

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The government as an (effective) venture capitalist
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- Productivity and Innovation

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The war of Tech: Cross-border venture capital, technology flows, and national security
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- Competition Policy 
- Politics and economics 
- Productivity and Innovation

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Venture capital-backed innovation and recessions
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- COVID-19 
- Macroeconomic policy 
- Productivity and Innovation