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- 14 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps
- 22 Feb 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines
- 09 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship
- 11 May 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
HBS colleagues Leslie Jeng, senior lecturer; Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor; Natalia Rigol, assistant professor; and Benjamin N. Roth, Purnima Puri View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53993 Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines By: Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
3.0 Benjamin N. Roth Natalia Rigol Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (also listed under Marketing) Anita... View Details
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Economy Jeremy Friedman Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Business at the Base of the Pyramid General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Natalia Rigol , Benjamin N. Roth Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Economy January 2025 J 3.0 Benjamin N. Roth Business at the Base of the Pyramid General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Business at the Base of the... View Details
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3.0 Benjamin N. Roth Natalia Rigol Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (also listed under Marketing) Anita... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines By: Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin Roth Abstract—A debt trap occurs when someone... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- October 2018 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund
In October 2016, SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese conglomerate giant caused a significant shock to the worldwide market for venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The... View Details
Nicholas, Tom, Ramana Nanda, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Masayoshi Son and the Vision Fund." Harvard Business School Case 819-041, October 2018. (Revised February 2018.)
- March 2022
- Article
Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps
By: Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth
Microcredit and other forms of small-scale finance have failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries. In these credit markets, borrowers and lenders often bargain over not only the interest rate but also implicit restrictions on types of investment. We... View Details
Liu, Ernest, and Benjamin N. Roth. "Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 3 (March 2022): 1141–1182.
- June 2021
- Article
Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design
By: Benjamin N. Roth and Ran I. Shorrer
Often market designers cannot force agents to join a marketplace rather than using pre-existing institutions. We propose a new desideratum for marketplace design that guarantees the safety of participation: Dominant Individual Rationality (DIR). A marketplace is DIR if... View Details
Roth, Benjamin N., and Ran I. Shorrer. "Making Marketplaces Safe: Dominant Individual Rationality and Applications to Market Design." Management Science 67, no. 6 (June 2021).
- 2022
- Working Paper
Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana
By: Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth and Christopher Udry
We study the impact of mobile money transfers to a representative sample of low-income
Ghanaians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers
affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once disbursed,... View Details
Karlan, Dean, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth, and Christopher Udry. "Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-010, July 2022. (Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.)
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
the large team of researchers looking at COVID-19’s impact on issues of work and organizational psychology, prompting changes for practitioners and human resources professionals. Impact Investing: A Theory... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Business Economics - Doctoral
Pacelli Matthew Rabin Sophus A. Reinert Forest L. Reinhardt Meg Rithmire Clayton S. Rose Benjamin N. Roth Raffaella Sadun David S. Scharfstein Joshua R. Schwartzstein Arthur I... View Details
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus Natalia Rigol Buchanan Associate Professor of Business Administration Benjamin N. Roth Purnima Puri and... View Details
- February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
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
Nanda, Ramana, Benjamin N. Roth, and Olivia Hull. "Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 820-007, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)