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Josh Lerner to Deliver the 2025–2026 Raben Lecture on Feb. 9

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Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, will deliver the John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture titled “The Government as Investor in an Era of Great Power Competition” on Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. at Yale Law School.

Lerner’s research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations, as well as innovation policy. He co-directs the Harvard Business School Private Capital Project and was recently recognized as one of the 40 most influential economists worldwide by ScholarGPS and research.com.

Lerner previously co-directed the National Bureau of Economic Research’s (NBER) Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program and currently acts as co-editor of NBER’s journal, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy. In addition, he is the founding director of the Private Capital Research Institute, a nonprofit devoted to encouraging access to data and research, and he serves as a frequent leader of and participant in World Economic Forum projects and events. 

Lerner received his B.A. from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy before earning a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.

The lecture is open to the Yale community. To attend, register by Friday, Feb. 6.

The John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellowship Lecture honors the memory of John R. Raben ’39. A partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Raben was counsel to investment banking and accounting firms and associations, including the Financial Accounting Standards Board, and counsel to the industry task force that helped draft the Securities Investor Protection Corporation legislation.

Established in 1999, the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law has a wide-ranging objective to enhance the quality of students’ educational experience and of faculty research in the business law area by increasing exposure to and engagement with contemporary business law issues.