by Josh Lerner and Amit Seru - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

School professor Josh Lerner, an expert in intellectual property protection and commercialization. He believes many companies have failed to recognize the growing importance of IP in the global economy.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

Corporate cutbacks could stall R&D and hinder innovation, argues Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner. In this Q&A, Lerner looks over the state of the venture... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Others Ashley Whillans Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Negotiation Katherine Coffman Kevin Mohan Julian J. Zlatev Max H. Bazerman Michael Norton Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Livia Alfonsi Alex Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4... View Details

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

pay-off, no reward? Could it be driven, as some media reports have admiringly suggested, purely by intellectual fervor on the part of programmers, perhaps coupled with a noble desire to share and dispense... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

and continuity of the firm” This pattern of unequal pay was much more extensive than anticipated among the 717 private equity partnerships studied by HBS finance professor Victoria Ivashina View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

2025 Q1 1.5 Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising General Management January 2026 J 3.0 Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent General Management, Business,... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Others Ashley Whillans Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Negotiation Katherine Coffman Kevin Mohan Julian J. Zlatev Max H. Bazerman Michael Norton Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Livia Alfonsi Alex Chan Jillian Jordan Amit Goldenberg Kadeem Noray Spring 2026 Q3Q4... View Details

2013
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Discussion of "Industrial Policies, the Creation of a Learning Society, and Economic Development" by Bruce Greenwald and Stiglitz Stiglitz

By: Josh Lerner

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07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

government in making it a success. "Particularly during the early years, the government played a critical role in shaping Silicon Valley," especially spending and funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, writes HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

billion--but analysts have been disappointed by a share price in the mid-teens. Are RLBOs really the risky, under-performing investment that is claimed? In fact, says Harvard Business School Professor Josh... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

Fall 2015
Article

Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Anna Kovner

This paper examines the investments and performance of community development venture capital (CDVC). We find substantial differences between CDVC and traditional venture capital (VC) investments: CDVC investments are far more likely to be in nonmetropolitan regions and... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Venture Capital

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31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

What’s Behind the Private Equity Boom?

Podcast with: Josh Lerner Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 15 min., 56 sec. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Financial Services

28 May 2020
News

Early-Stage VC Is ‘Highly’ Sensitive to Downturns —Including This One

March 1999
Article

Discussion of "Engineering Bureaucracy: The Genesis of Formal Policies, Positions, and Structures in High-Technology Firms" by James N. Baron, M. Diane Burton, and Michael T. Hannan

By: Josh Lerner

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Engineering; Technology Industry

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20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen