William A. Sahlman

William A. Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he has been a faculty member since 1980. He is best known for his research and teaching on entrepreneurial finance, including co-authoring the influential Harvard Business School note on the Venture Capital Method with Daniel R. Scherlis in 1987. He introduced the Entrepreneurial Finance elective at HBS and has published over 200 cases and notes on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and deal structuring.