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Professor Sorensen's research focuses on Private Equity, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship, emphasizing the value created between investors and their portfolio companies. Recent research includes studies of the matching of VC investors and start-ups, the risk and return of entrepreneurial investments, VCs’ learning about industries and technologies, the effects of CEO type on deal success, the effects of PE on innovation, and the recent surge in PE activity in emerging markets. Sorensen teaches the elective Entrepreneurial Finance.

• Fall 2012
  Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity (MBA)
  
• Spring 2012
  Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity (EMBA)
  
• Fall 2011
  Entrepreneurial Finance & Private Equity (MBA)
  
• Spring 2011
  Entrepreneurial Finance (EMBA)
  Entrepreneurial Finance (MBA)
  
• Spring 2010
  Entrepreneurial Finance (EMBA)
  Entrepreneurial Finance (MBA)
  
• Summer 2010
  Entrepreneurial Finance (EMBA)
  
• Spring 2009
  Entrepreneurial Finance (EMBA)
  Entrepreneurial Finance (MBA)
  

Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation In The Journal of Finance (2011) Coauthor(s): J. Lerner, Morten Sorensen, Per Stromberg

A Simulation-based Approach to Stochastic Dynamic Programming In Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2011) Coauthor(s): Nicholas Polson, Morten Sorensen

Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies In The Review of Financial Studies (2010) Coauthor(s): Arthur Korteweg, Morten Sorensen

How Smart Is Smart Money? A Two-Sided Matching Model of Venture Capital In The Journal of Finance (2007) Coauthor(s): Morten Sorensen

Private Equity and Industry Performance In Working Paper (2010) Coauthor(s): Shai Bernstein, J. Lerner, Morten Sorensen, Per Stromberg

Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter? In Working paper (2010) Coauthor(s): Steven Kaplan, Mark Klebanov, Morten Sorensen

Private Equity, Industry Performance and Cyclicality In Globalization of Alternative Investments Working Papers Volume 3: The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity Report 2010 (2009) Coauthor(s): Shai Bernstein, Morten Sorensen, J. Lerner, Per Strömberg

Learning by Investing: Evidence From Venture Capital In (2008) Coauthor(s): Morten Sorensen