Brian K. Baik

Brian K. Baik is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, affiliated with the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA required curriculum.

• Education: PhD and Master of Finance from MIT Sloan School of Management, BS from Carnegie Mellon University.
• Research Focus: Explores how financial reporting, information disclosure, and corporate taxes impact private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) investors in startup firms.
• Key Topics: Role of financial statements in PE/VC financing, fund valuation inflation, digital technology adoption, and investor influence on media coverage.
• Publications: Recent works include studies on public financial statements in PE/VC, family financing in startups, investor-driven media dynamics, and digital transformation in private equity.