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      Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries
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      • September 2019
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      Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital Among Female Microentrepreneurs

      By: Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol
      Multiple field experiments report positive financial returns to capital shocks for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But these analyses overlook the fact that female entrepreneurs often reside with male entrepreneurs. Using data from experiments in India, Sri...  View Details
      Keywords: Capital Return; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Household; Capital
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      Bernhardt, Arielle, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital Among Female Microentrepreneurs." American Economic Review: Insights 1, no. 2 (September 2019): 141–160.
      • February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
      • Case

      Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier and Anna Resman
      This case covers the rise and fall of Theranos, the company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2004 to revolutionize the blood testing industry by creating a device that could provide from a small finger prick the same results and accuracy as intravenous blood draws. As...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Testing And Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading And Fraudulent Advertising; Crime And Corruption; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Lawsuits And Litigation
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      Hsieh, Nien-hê, Christina R. Wing, Emilie Fournier, and Anna Resman. "Theranos: Who Has Blood on Their Hands? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 619-039, February 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
      • November 2018
      • Case

      Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee

      By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy
      As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Sales; Entrepreneurial Selling; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Barrier To Entry; Business Start-ups; Yatooq; Entrepreneurship; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Business Strategy; Patents; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Adaptation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Food And Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Asia
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      Roberge, Mark, Gamze Yucaoglu, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee." Harvard Business School Case 819-075, November 2018.
      • April 2018
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      We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding

      By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins
      Male entrepreneurs are known to raise higher levels of funding than their female counterparts, but the underlying mechanism for this funding disparity remains contested. Drawing upon Regulatory Focus Theory, we propose that the gap originates with a gender bias in the...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Finance; Gender; Prejudice And Bias
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      Kanze, Dana, Laura Huang, Mark Conley, and E. Tory Higgins. "We Ask Men to Win & Women Not to Lose: Closing the Gender Gap in Startup Funding." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 2 (April 2018): 586–614.
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      Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures

      By: Matthew Lee and Laura Huang
      Recent studies find that female-led ventures are penalized relative to male-led ventures due to role incongruity, or a perceived “lack of fit,” between female stereotypes and expected personal qualities of business entrepreneurs. We examine whether social impact...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Prejudice And Bias; Framework; Perception; Performance Evaluation
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      Lee, Matthew, and Laura Huang. "Gender Bias, Social Impact Framing, and Evaluation of Entrepreneurial Ventures." Organization Science 29, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 1–16.
      • June 27, 2017
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      Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs —and It Affects How Much Funding They Get

      By: Dana Kanze, Laura Huang, Mark Conley and E. Tory Higgins
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      Kanze, Dana, Laura Huang, Mark Conley, and E. Tory Higgins. "Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs —and It Affects How Much Funding They Get." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 27, 2017).
      • April 2017 (Revised December 2020)
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      Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Kathy Choi
      This case examines the entrepreneurial career of Helena Rubinstein before 1938. Rubinstein is widely considered the single most important female entrepreneur in the United States in the 20th century. She was born in Poland but immigrated to Australia where she started...  View Details
      Keywords: Female Entrepreneur; Brands And Branding; Luxury; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development And Career; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Kathy Choi. "Helena Rubinstein: Making Up the Modern Woman." Harvard Business School Case 317-116, April 2017. (Revised December 2020.)
      • October 2016 (Revised October 2017)
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      Going Rogue: Choson Exchange in North Korea

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Dawn H. Lau and Amy MacBeath
      In mid-2015, the Singapore-based CEO of Choson Exchange Geoffrey See pondered his next move. He had founded Choson Exchange as a non-profit in 2009 to further female entrepreneurship in North Korea by providing business and legal training in the isolated country. Now,...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; For-profit Firms; Risk And Uncertainty; Opportunities; North Korea
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Dawn H. Lau, and Amy MacBeath. "Going Rogue: Choson Exchange in North Korea." Harvard Business School Case 717-015, October 2016. (Revised October 2017.)
      • August 2016
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      S'well: The Mass Market Decision

      By: Youngme Moon
      This case tells the story of how Sarah Kauss, a young female entrepreneur, built a premium water bottle brand from scratch. After having built a high-end brand, the key decision in the case is whether to begin expanding the S'well product portfolio to the mass market.  View Details
      Keywords: Brands And Branding; Marketing; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Distribution; Strategy; United States
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      Moon, Youngme. "S'well: The Mass Market Decision." Harvard Business School Case 317-019, August 2016.
      • May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
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      Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah
      This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on...  View Details
      Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mine; Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Operations; Management; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Singapore
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Essie Alamsyah. "Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World." Harvard Business School Case 316-178, May 2016. (Revised April 2019.)
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      Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?

      By: Erica Field, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol
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      Field, Erica, Seema Jayachandran, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 8, no. 2 (May 2016): 125–153.
      • September 2015
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      Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
      This (B) case takes up the story of the Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development And Career; Gender; Afghanistan
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-070, September 2015.
      • 2014
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      Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men

      By: Alison Wood Brooks, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray
      Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition and...  View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice And Bias; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Gender
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      Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney, and Fiona Murray. "Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched by Attractive Men." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, no. 12 (March 25, 2014): 4427–4431.
      • 2013
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      Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

      By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Stephen O'Connell
      We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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      Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell. "Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 6 (November 2013): 929–964. (Winner of the FPD Academy Award for Best World Bank Research in Finance and Private Sector Development.)
      • 2011
      • Teaching Note

      Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao
      Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen...  View Details
      Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; Ipo; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia, and Ziqian Zhao. "Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2011.
      • August 2010 (Revised December 2016)
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      Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
      Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent...  View Details
      Keywords: Opportunities; Social Entrepreneurship; Problems And Challenges; Welfare; Gender; Afghanistan
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 811-023, August 2010. (Revised December 2016.)
      • August 2006 (Revised June 2015)
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      Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Alexis Lefort
      Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher rates of female entrepreneurship in developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Developing Countries And Economies
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Alexis Lefort. "Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-018, August 2006. (Revised June 2015.)
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      By: Natalia Rigol
      My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance...  View Details
      • Forthcoming
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      Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability

      By: Laura Huang, Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak and Andy Wu
      Female entrepreneurs have been found to face disadvantages as compared with male entrepreneurs, especially in acquiring the financial resources they need to sustain and grow their ventures. Across three studies, we examine how disparities in funding outcomes may be due...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Finance; Gender; Prejudice And Bias; Communication
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      Huang, Laura, Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, and Andy Wu. "Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability." Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming).
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