HBS professor named fellow
Recognized by European Corporate Governance Institute
Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, has been named a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute, an international nonprofit association that provides a forum for debate and dialogue among academics, legislators, and practitioners regarding major corporate governance issues with the intention of promoting best practice.
Fellows are named in recognition of their demonstrated excellence or other outstanding achievements in the field of corporate governance. Lerner’s most recent book, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do About It” (Princeton University Press, 2009), recently won the 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal for the best book on entrepreneurship. It previously won the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence in the business, management, and finance category.