哈佛研究：和朋友投资生意成功率减少25%_职场英语

哈佛研究：和朋友投资生意成功率减少25%

Thinking of going into business with a friend? Your relationship could cost you, according to research。

在考虑和朋友合伙做生意吗？研究表明，你的友情会让你遭受损失。

Researchers at Harvard University, in a study looking at friendship among venture capitalists, found that those who paired together based on how much they liked each other - as opposed to basing the decision on ability - were likely to see less success on their investments。

哈佛大学的研究人员发现，那些选择交情好的人做合作伙伴的人，相比那些根据对方能力来选合作伙伴的人，在投资上更容易失败。这些研究人员对风险资本家之间的友情进行了研究。

'The Cost of Friendship' report by three authors - whether they are friends or not is not known - studied more than 3,500 venture capitalists from 1975 to 2003.

这一研究报告名为《友情的代价》，由三个人共同撰写完成，至于他们是不是朋友就不得而知了。该研究在1975年到2003年间调查了3500名风险资本家。

The study showed that if business partners of the same minority group worked together, their chances of a successful return dropped by 25 percent。

研究显示，如果选择朋友作为自己的生意合伙人，他们的投资成功率将减少25%。

By the same token, those partners who went to the same college saw their chance of success drop by 22 percent, and by 18 percent if they started a business together before。