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  • 14 Apr 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Contractual Restrictions and Debt Traps

Keywords: by Ernest Liu and Benjamin N. Roth; Financial Services
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines

Keywords: by Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin N. Roth
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Benjamin N. Roth; Financial Services
  • 11 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism Design in the Field

Keywords: by Reshmaan Hussam, Natalia Rigol, and Benjamin N. Roth
  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

can be profitable while doing good, suggests new research from Benjamin N. Roth, a Harvard Business School assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “This idea that you're increasing your... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 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
  • 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

Benjamin N. Roth Natalia Rigol Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) (also listed under General Management... View Details
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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) General Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurial Management Kash Rangan , Benjamin N. Roth ,... View Details
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Benjamin N. Roth Natalia Rigol Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) (also listed under General Management... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Dante Roscini IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation Business, Government & the International Economy January 2026 J 3.0 Benjamin N. 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

By: Tom Nicholas, Ramana Nanda and Benjamin N. Roth
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
Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy
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  • 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
Keywords: Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Financing and Loans
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  • 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
Keywords: Dominant Individual Rationality; Market Design; Safety
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  • 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
Keywords: Social Distancing; Social Welfare; Economic Relief; Health Pandemics; Poverty
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Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) Course Number 1588 Baker Foundation Professor Kash Rangan Associate Professor Benjamin N. View Details
  • 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

Moss Vincent Pons Matthew Rabin Forest L. Reinhardt Benjamin N. Roth Raffaella Sadun David S. Scharfstein Joshua R. Schwartzstein Ishita Sen Jesse M. Shapiro Emil View Details
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Strategy - Doctoral

first year typically by working with a faculty member. By their third and fourth years, most students are launched on a solid research and... View Details