Paul Gompers

Paul Gompers is the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is one of the foremost academic researchers on venture capital, widely known for his extensive collaboration with HBS colleague Josh Lerner, with whom he has co-authored three books and numerous papers on venture capital governance, fundraising, and private equity returns. His work is foundational to the empirical study of how VC markets function, including research examining the relationship between capital inflows and the quality of investment outcomes.