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Athenaeum Dinner and Venture Capital Talk with Steven Neil Kaplan

September 13, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Steven Neil Kaplan

Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

 

Steven Neil Kaplan conducts research on issues in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance and corporate finance. He has published papers in a number of academic and business journals. He has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee about his research. Kaplan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics.

Kaplan teaches advanced MBA and executive courses in entrepreneurial finance and private equity, corporate finance, corporate governance, and wealth management. BusinessWeek named him one of the top 12 business school teachers in the country.

Professor Kaplan co-founded the entrepreneurship program at Booth. With his students, he helped start Booth’s business plan competition, the New Venture Challenge (NVC), which has spawned over one hundred companies that have raised over $400 million and created over $3 billion in value. Kaplan serves on the boards of Columbia Acorn Funds, Morningstar and the Illinois Venture Capital Association. He has been a member of the faculty since 1988.

He received his AB, summa cum laude, in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College and earned a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.

Details

Date:
September 13, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum
385 E. 8th St.
Claremont, CA 91711 United States
Phone
(909) 621-8244