Finnish Venture Capital Association Best Thesis Award 2021 to Henri Lencioni
Henri Lencioni's winning thesis was titled 鈥淎ssessing Venture Capital Investor Performance Drivers 鈥 A Practical Application of Machine Learning鈥
Finnish Venture Capital Association awarded two Department of Industrial Engineering and Management students theses:
Henri Lencioni's winning thesis was titled 鈥Assessing Venture Capital Investor Performance Drivers 鈥 A Practical Application of Machine Learning鈥 - read more about the topic in Henri's recent blog on the topic:
Nikke Mikkonen received an honorary award for his thesis "Effect of Fund Size Growth on Subsequent Fund Performance in European Buyout Funds鈥
Both theses were supervised by professor Markku Maula.
Congratulations!
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