December 5, 2023

June 22, 2023, “The Democratization of Private Capital” with Steffen Pauls (Founder, Chairman and CEO, Moonfare) and Joan Solotar (Global Head of Private Wealth Solutions, Blackstone), moderated by Professor Victoria Ivashina (Co-head of HBS Private Capital Project)

May 16, 2023 “The Measurement of Impact Investors in an Age of Skepticism” with Lisa Hall (Impact Chairperson, Private Equity at Apollo), David Kirkpatrick (Managing Director and Co-founder, SJF Ventures), Andrew Lee (Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, UBS Global Wealth Management), and Ben Roth (Assistant Professor, HBS), moderated by Brian Trelstad (Senior Lecturer, HBS and Partner, Bridges Fund Management)

December 14, 2022 “The State of the Indian Private Capital Industry” with Rajan Anandan (Managing Director, Sequoia Capital), Prakul Kaushiva (Managing Director Private Equity, CPP Investments), Renuka Ramnath (Founder, MD and CEO, Multiples Alternate Asset Management), and Karthik Reddy (Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Blume Venture Advisors), moderated by Professors Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) and Thillai Rajan (IIT Madras)

September 14, 2022 “The Engagement of Private Equity with Employees of Portfolio Companies” with Professor Sabrina Howell (NYU), Andrew Stern (President Emeritus, Service Employee International Union (SEIU), and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project), Greg Jania (Global Co-head of Private Equity, APG Asset Management) and Peter Stavros (Co-Head of US Private Equity, KKR and Founder and Chairman, Ownership Works), moderated by Professor Josh Lerner (Co-head of HBS Private Capital Project)

May 11, 2022 “The Growth of European Venture Capital” with Niklas Adalberth (Norrsken Foundation), Thomas Hellmann (University of Oxford), Nenad Marovac (DN Capital), and Diane Mulcahy (Kauffman Foundation), with empirical evidence presented by Josh Lerner (HBS), moderated by Reiner Braun (Entrepreneurial Finance Group, Technische Universität München)

March 22, 2022 “HBS/Private Capital Project Webinar: The Challenges of 'Tough Tech': The American Venture System and National Competitiveness” with Ufuk Akcigit (The Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics, University of Chicago), Ann DeWitt (General Partner, The Engine), and Tex Schenkkan (Director, National Security Innovation Capital, U.S. Department of Defense), moderated by Josh Krieger (Harvard Business School)

January 18, 2022 “Public Market Replication of Private Equity” with Rich Carson (Cambridge Associates), Peter Cornelius (AlpInvest), and Erik Stafford (Harvard Business School), moderated by Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)

December 16, 2021 “HBS/Private Capital Project Webinar: The Changing Secondary Market” with Paige Brotherton (Coller Capital), Sascha Gruber (LGT Capital Partners), Todd Miller (Jefferies), and Mike Weisbach (Ohio State University), moderated by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School and Director of the PCRI).

June 18, 2021 “Private Equity and Healthcare: A Perfect Marriage?” with Amitabh Chandra (Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School), Ashvin Gandhi (UCLA Anderson School of Management), and Clay Richards (CEO, naviHealth), moderated by Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School)

June 16, 2021 “FinTech and Small Businesses” with Sabrina Howell (New York University’s Stern School of Business), Eyal Lifshitz (CEO and Founder, Bluevine), Karen Mills (Harvard Business School and Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, 2009-2013), and Frank Rotman (Founding Partner, QED Investors), moderated by Shai Bernstein (Harvard Business School)

March 17, 2021 “Riding the SPAC Wave” with Chris Ehrlich (CEO of Locust Walk Acquisition Corp. and Senior Managing Director and Head of New Ventures at Locust Walk), Rekha Hemrajani (CEO & Director of Jiya Acquisition Corp.), and Sanjay H. Patel (Chairman International and Senior Partner of Private Equity of Apollo Management), moderated by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School and the Private Capital Research Institute)

September 29, 2020 “Impact Investing: How Does It Fit into the Broader Capital Markets? Case Studies from the Forest Conservation Sector” with Matthew Arnold (Head of ESG and Corporate Responsibility Engagement at JPMorgan Chase), Clark Binkley (Managing Director at International Forestry Investment Advisors), Ratnika Prasad (Director at the Environmental Defense Fund), John Gilbert (Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at The Conservation Fund), and Rick Weyerhaeuser (Senior Natural Resource Strategist and Director at Sonen Capital), with special commentary by John Gilbert and Rick Weyerhaeuser, moderated by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School)

September 9, 2020: “The Future of Diversity and Inclusion in Private Equity: Can the Industry Meet the Challenge?” A webinar hosted by the Private Capital Project at Harvard Business School and the Private Capital Research Institute. The panelists included Marlon Nichols (Managing General Partner, MaC Venture Capital), Jasmine Richards (Head of Diverse Investing, Cambridge Associates), Kirk Sims (Head of Emerging Manager Program, Teachers Retirement System of Texas), and Willie Woods (President and Managing Director, ICV Partners). The discussion was moderated by Josh Lerner (HBS and PCRI).

July 15, 2020: “VC Policy in the time of COVID-19” A webinar hosted by the Private Capital Project at Harvard Business School and the Private Capital Research Institute. The discussants were Jeff Bussgang (General Partner, Flybridge), Anne Glover (CEO and Co-Founder, Amadeus Capital Partners), Sabrina Howell (Assistant Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University), Eugenes Kandel (CEO, Start-Up Nation Central and Emil Spyer Professor of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Charles Lespérance (AVP Ecosystem Development, Business Development Bank of Canada). The discussion, moderated by Josh Lerner (HBS and PCRI).

October 11, 2019 “The Rise of the Asset Owner-Investor in Private Markets” hosted by the Private Capital Project at the Harvard Business School and the Private Capital Research Institute. The workshop included discussions led by John Haggerty (Managing Principal, Meketa Investment Group) with panelists Brian Conway (Chairman, Managing Partner, TA Associates), Mark Gallogly (Co-Founder and Managing Principal, Centerbridge Partners), Scott Sperling (Co-President, Thomas H. Lee Partners), and Glenn Youngkin (Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group). The academic perspective was provided by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) with discussants Victoria Ivashina (Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School) and Tim Jenkinson (Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford).

September 11, 2018 “The Rise of Impact Investing: Its Implications and Unanswered Questions” with Peter Cornelius (Alpinvest), Christine Looney (Ford Foundation), and Christopher Walker (HarbourVest Partners), led by George Serafeim (Harvard Business School) for the Limited Partnership Perspective. The Academic Perspective was provided by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) with panelists Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School), Anna Kovner (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), and David Musto (University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business). The General Partner Perspective panel was led by Vikram Gandhi (Harvard Business School) with panelists Sir Ronald Cohen (Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and Social Finance), Lisa Hagerman (DBL Partners), and Greg Shell (Bain Double Impact).

On September 6, 2017, a group of limited partners, academics, and general partners met to share perspectives on the broad social consequences of private equity investments.

On May 4, 2016, a group of limited partners, academics, and general partners met to explore the important and dynamic issues associated with creating better alignment in the private capital industry.