Counting on Capital: Private Equity Perspectives

In our third segment of the Academic Perspective we interview Dr. Steven Neil Kaplan from University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is the co-creator of the Kaplan-Schoar PME (Public Market Equivalent) private equity benchmarking approach. A Fortune Magazine article referred to him as "probably the foremost private equity scholar in the galaxy.” Today we discuss his research in private equity's performance and his prediction about private equity's ability to continue outperforming in the COVID-19 crisis. 

In our second segment of the Academic Perspective we interview Dr. Gregory Brown from UNC's Kenan Flagler School of Business. He founded and directs the Institute for Private Capital. Today we discuss everything from his path to finance to the impact of COVID-19. 

In our first segment of the Academic Perspective we interview Dr. Joshua Lerner from Harvard Business School. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute and co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Program. He also teaches the popular "Venture Capital and Private Equity" course at HBS. We talk about his journey from physics to economics and his groundbreaking research on private equity.  

We've all heard about private equity. Maybe we've heard about it in the news or through a friend. But it isn't exactly clear what private equity does or how it impacts our economy. This show tells the stories of people who study, work for and work in private equity. We'll talk to professors, entrepreneurs and private equity leaders for their view on what they do and why it matters.