Josh Lerner

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problems. There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change and decaying infrastructure. It is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap. If these...

There has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change, human health, and decaying infrastructure. It is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap. If these critical needs are to be met, the major pools of long-term, patient capital—including pensions, sovereign...

Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship stems from a realization that private equity overall—defined in this volume as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a vastly more sizable and influential part of the global economic landscape over the past two decades. The text explores the world of active investing and showcases ways of doing...