Brian K. Baik
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Brian Baik is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Baik studies accounting topics such as disclosure and tax in the context of private firms, startups and private equity/venture capital investors. Some of his works have focused on the role of financial statement disclosure for PE/VC investments, and whether and how private equity fund managers inflate their interim fund valuations (net asset values) during fundraising periods.
Professor Baik earned a PhD in management (accounting) and a Master of Finance from MIT Sloan School of Management. He also holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he worked for the Singaporean private equity firm Houghton Street Partners.
- Working Papers
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- Baik, Brian K. "Private Equity Fund Valuation Management during Fundraising." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-013, August 2022. View Details
- Baik, Brian K., Natalie Berfeld, and Rodrigo S. Verdi. "Do Public Financial Statements Influence Venture Capital and Private Equity Financing?" SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3867958, June 2021. View Details
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