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  • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
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Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.... View Details
Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

Avoiding Startup Failure Lindsay Hyde Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Building Web 3 Businesses Scott Duke Kominers Shai Bernstein Spring 2024 Q3 1.5 Business Marketing and Sales (also listed under Marketing) TBD Spring 2024 Q4 1.5 Data for Impact... View Details
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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Q4 1.5 Building Trusted Organizations Sandra Sucher Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Natalia Rigol , Benjamin N. View Details
  • December 2021
  • Article

India's Food Supply Chain during the Pandemic

By: Matt Lowe, G.V. Nadhanael and Benjamin N. Roth
We document the impact of India’s COVID-19 lockdown on the food supply chain. Food arrivals in wholesale markets dropped by 69% in the three weeks following the lockdown and wholesale prices rose by 8%. Six weeks after the lockdown began, volumes and prices had fully... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Supply Chain; Health Pandemics; Food; Policy; System Shocks; Food and Beverage Industry; India
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Avoiding Startup Failure Lindsay Hyde Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Business at the Base of the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Natalia Rigol , Benjamin View Details
  • 2023
  • Chapter

Market Design Under Weak Institutions

By: Benjamin N. Roth
As market designers begin to address economic inequality, we will necessarily also begin to engage marginalized populations who have so far not been served well by the markets in which they participate. We will need new market designs for participants who may not... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Equality and Inequality; Trust; Emerging Markets
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

neighborhood-based community nonprofits and securing funding for low-income people. The Cashins have two children, Frances and Henry. This fellowship will support deserving MBA students. Casper (MBA 1995)... View Details
  • July 2021
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A Close Shave at Squire

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth and Michael Norris
In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth The course examines the opportunities and the challenges of the base of the... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Do Collusive Norms Maximize Profits? Evidence From a Vegetable Market Experiment in India

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe and Benjamin N. Roth
Social norms have been shown to facilitate anti-competitive behavior in decentralized markets. We demonstrate that these norms can also reduce aggregate profits. First, we present descriptive evidence of competition-suppressing norms in Kolkata vegetable markets.... View Details
Keywords: Collusion; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Small Business; Microeconomics; Kolkata
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Data for Impact: Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune 500 C-Suite - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Data for Impact: Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune 500 C-Suite Course Number 1641 Associate Professor Benjamin N. Roth Assistant Professor Natalia... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Benjamin N. Roth Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration Ethan C. Rouen Terrie F. View Details
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Print View - Course Catalog

Rigol Associate Professor Benjamin N. Roth Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Associate Professor Benjamin View Details