The global “Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper” was established within the 2021 conferences. The Award Jury was comprised of a global elite of private equity researchers from, e.g. Harvard Business School, HHL, INSEAD, London Business School, MIT and Stockholm School of Economics.
They searched for academic publications in highly ranked peer reviewed journals (A or A+ ranking) on the topics of “Private Equity” and “Venture Capital”. In total, 60 journals with several volumes and issues were scanned in 2019 and 2020.
The members of the 2022 Doriot Award Jury are:
Benjamin Hammer, Lancaster University (Co-Chair)
Thomas A. Jesch, Bund Institutioneller Investoren (Co-Chair)
Spencer Ante, Meta (Doriot Biographer)
Eric Deram, Flexstone Partners
Lily Fang, INSEAD
Jeremy Golding, Golding Capital Partners
Yup S. Kim, CalPERS
Michael McGirr, MassPRIM
Markus Muhs, Milbank
Per Strömberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Tereza Tykvová, HSG
Axel Wieandt, Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Has been attributed to:
Investing Outside the Box : Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity
By Josh Lerner, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, Nan R. Zhang
Published in : Journal of Financial Economics 143, no. 1 (January 2022): 359–380.
It is my great honor to receive this year’s Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper. I hope the insights from our findings assist asset managers and asset owners in making better investment decisions. I am thankful for the excellent team of researchers and the leadership at State Street that helped make this happen.