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Michael Ewens

David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance
Finance Division
Co-director
Private Equity Program
Michael Ewens
Areas of Expertise
Corporate Finance, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Financial Institutions
Contact
Office: 732 Kravis
E-mail: [email protected]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
LinkedIn

Michael Ewens is the David L. and Elsie M. Dodd Professor of Finance and co-director of the Private Equity Program.  He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics, Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Associate Editor at Management Science, Associate Editor at the Journal of Corporate Finance, and co-editor of the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. Since 2006 he has been a quantitative advisor for Correlation Ventures, a quantitative-focused venture capital firm.  His research has appeared in the Economist, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. Prof. Ewens has taught venture capital and private equity finance at Columbia Business School, California Institute of Technology, Wharton School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California San Diego. From 2010 to 2014, he was on the faculty at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2014 to 2022, he was on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology. He co-organizes the Columbia Private Equity Conference and the virtual Workshop on Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation.

Education
Ph.D. in Economics, 2010, UCSD; BA in Mathematics and in Economics, 2004, Washington University in St. Louis
Joined CBS
2022

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • CaseWorks
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
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  • Chapters
Journal Article
Ewens, Michael
. “Race and Gender in Entrepreneurial Finance.”
Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Finance
vol.
1
, no.
1
(Forthcoming):
239
-
296
.
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Journal Article
Ewens, Michael and Christopher Stanton
. “Founder-CEO Compensation and Selection into Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurship.”
Journal of Finance
(Forthcoming).
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Journal Article
Ewens, Michael
. “Private or public equity? The evolving entrepreneurial finance landscape.”
Annual Review of Financial Economics
vol.
14
, (November 01, 2022):
271
-
293
.
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  • Courses
  • Case Studies
Course
B8345: Entrepreneurial Finance
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Course
B9341: Research in Entrepreneurial Finance
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Course
B8317: Current Topics in Private Equity
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Course
B9334: Big Data In Finance
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Course
B8343: Private Equity Finance
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Course
B8335: Private Equity Allocation
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Course
B8322: Private Equity Field Study Lab
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Course
B9305: (PhD) Finance Pre-Thesis Seminar
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Course
B8329: Private Equity: Value Creation
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Course
B8417: Private Equity Deals
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  • Awards & Honors

The CICF 2021

with Ting Xu

  • In the Media
  • Articles
In the Media

Women in Private Equity: "Not Enough to Be Competent, You Have to Be Beautiful"

E - Financial Careers
In the Media

Here Are the Startups Jeff Bezos Invested in Last Year

Forbes
In the Media

Trump Media Stock Slumps 4% After Donald Trump Moved All His DJT Shares to a Trust

Quartz
In the Media

Trump Media Stock Didn't Rally after the Election. Here's Why

Quartz
In the Media

Financing Themselves: Funding Landscape Lacks in Diversity

Los Angeles Business Journal
In the Media

Trump Media lockup deadline leaves Trump with a choice: trigger a fire sale or hold a meme stock

Fortune
In the Media

Closing the Deal in the Classroom - and Beyond

Columbia Business Magazine
In the Media

A Goldman Sachs-Backed Electricity Firm Is Making a Play to Reach More Americans’ Homes

CNBC
In the Media

Symposium: Local Journalism, Business, and Society

Business Scholarship Podcast
In the Media

Private or Public Equity? The Evolving Entrepreneurial Finance Landscape

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
In the Media

I Dug Into Whether Sanctions Will Work Against Russia

The New York Times
In the Media

Regulatory Costs of Being Public: Evidence from Bunching Estimation

The CLS Blue Sky Blog
In the Media

There’s Unicorn Blood in the Streets

Bloomberg
In the Media

American startups have less need to list on the stockmarket

The Economist
In the Media

Board dynamics over the startup life cycle

Vox EU
In the Media

The Rise of Private Financing for Entrepreneurs

National Bureau of Economic Research
Article

Closing the Gender Gap: Why Private Equity Needs More Women in Leadership

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Closing the Gender Gap: Why Private Equity Needs More Women in Leadership

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Article

Private Equity Curriculum Pathway

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Article

Private Equity Program in Columbia Business Magazine Summer/Fall 2024

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Article

Investigating Gender Inequities in Private Equity

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Article

Closing the Deal in the Classroom– and Beyond

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Article

After Silicon Valley Bank's Collapse, CBS Experts Weigh In on Causes, Solutions, and the Outlook for the Banking Sector

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  • CaseWorks
Case ID
250315

SkinnyPop: Just Hot Air or a Great Investment?

Should TA Advisors, a private equity firm, take a risk and invest in SkinnyPop Popcorn, a single-SKU snack company with high growth potential, but also infrastructure and operational issues that may be too significant to overcome?

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