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.
Morten Sorensen
Daniel W. Stanton Associate Professor of Business
B.Sc., Aarhus University, Denmark, 1997; PhD., Stanford University, 2005
Joined CBS in 2008
Office
802 Uris
Phone
212-851-2446
E-mail
ms3814@columbia.edu
Fax
212-662-8474
Teaching and research interest
Courses taught
- Spring 2009
Entrepreneurial Finance