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InTimeTV Talk Show Featuring Professor Steven Kaplan, Hosted by Dr. Ogan Gurel, MD

Tue, 02/26/2008 - 17:02 — Zangani

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InTimeTV features Prof. Steven Kaplan (AB’81 AM’82 PhD’88) - Neubauer Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago.

This internet TV interview sheds light on some of the perennial questions and issues important to venture capital investors, private equity fund managers and others.

  • What’s more important: the jockey or the horse?

  • Important predictive characteristics of CEOs
  • Has private equity benefited the economy?
  • Trends in private equity
  • And other questions …

    “Professor Kaplan is one of the foremost researchers in the world on private equity, corporate governance and venture capital. His papers on LBOs are the standard references in the field. He has testified to U.S. Senate and U.S. House Committees about his research. His findings and opinions regularly appear in prominent business media. Professor Kaplan is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics.”

    Dr. Ogan Gurel is chairman of the Aesis Group which provides consulting services in the life sciences and healthcare sectors to clients that have included biopharma/medtech companies, hospitals & health systems, private equity firms, venture capital groups and hedge funds. Dr. Gurel is also Medical Producer at InTimeTV – one of the world’s only peer-to-peer professional internet TV talk show networks. At InTimeTV, he is host to three shows – Insights in Medicine, Eye on Harvard and Nanotech Today which broadcast worldwide. As a healthcare technology expert and futurist, he has been a frequent conference speaker worldwide, addressing the issue of emerging technologies and their impact on the future of healthcare with particular focus on convergent medical technologies including medical nanotechnology. Ogan’s commentaries have been published in prominent publications, including the Wall Street Journal and he is a regular columnist for Midwestbusiness.com, a juror for the 2007/2008 Medical Design Excellence Awards and an Adjunct Associate Professor of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ogan’s scientific work has been published in the peer-reviewed literature and has received numerous awards; he has taught at several universities including the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Roosevelt University, Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. For a more complete bio, you can download a PDF or click here. You can email Ogan by clicking here and view his blog at http://blog.aesisgroup.com/.