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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

Finance Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Jeffrey J. Bussgang Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Nori Gerardo Lietz Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Olivia S. Kim Assistant Professor of Business Administration View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Enterprises

By: Benjamin N. Roth
I present a model of financing social enterprises to delineate the role of impact investors relative to “pure” philanthropists. I characterize the optimal scale and structure of a social enterprise when financed by grants, and when financed by investments. Impact... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Buchanan Associate Professor of Business Administration Benjamin N. Roth Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business... View Details
  • 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

(also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Benjamin N. Roth , Natalia Rigol Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Business of Entertainment, Media, and... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

the Pyramid (also listed under General Management) Benjamin N. Roth , Natalia Rigol Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Business Solutions for the Poor (Global View Details
  • December 2021
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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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  • 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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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

faced a crucial decision. Since its 2013 founding, NOLB had h... GiveDirectly: Can Direct Cash Transfers End Extreme Poverty? By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin N. Roth, Sarah Mehta 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

force business leaders to confront? For the full listing, click here . Business at the Base of the Pyramid (Fall 2024, Spring 2025) Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. View Details
  • 2024
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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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  • 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

convincing story about the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles
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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

Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) General Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurial Management Kash Rangan , Benjamin N. Roth ,... View Details