Josh Lerner

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]

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

• Gompers, Paul A.; Lerner, Josh (1999). The Venture Capital Cycle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
• Gompers, Paul A.; Lerner, Josh (2001). The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN 9781578513260. OCLC 783011253.
• Jaffe, Adam; Lerner, Josh (2004). Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691117256. OCLC 965960379.
• Lerner, Josh (2009). Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691142197. OCLC 781617702.
• Lerner, Josh; Schankerman, Mark (2010). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262289573. OCLC 942554236.
• Lerner, Josh; Schoar, Antoinette, eds. (2010). International Differences in Entrepreneurship. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226473093. OCLC 702350246.
• Lerner, Josh; Stern, Scott, eds. (2012). The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226473031. OCLC 809972828.
• Lerner, Josh (2012). The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press. ISBN 9781422143636. OCLC 835170544.
• Hardymon, Felda; Leamon, Ann; Lerner, Josh (2012). Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780470591437. OCLC 785798970.