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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Ford Foundation (A) (220026) by Shawn Cole , Michael Norris and T. Robert Zochowski FEBRUARY 2020 (REVISED JANUARY 2022) Darren Walker and his staff have been preparing for...
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Courses - Entrepreneurship
2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Scaling Technology Ventures Jeffrey Rayport Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 Startup Operations Studio (SOS) Julia Austin Spring 2024 Q3Q4 1.5 Strategy for Entrepreneurs (also listed under Strategy) Rembrand Koning Fall 2023 Q1Q2 3.0 Sustainable Investing (also...
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks, 5 hrs/week...
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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
How is and how should social value be defined and measured? What does it mean in practice to be an impact investor? Initiative Chair Shawn A. Cole John G. McLean Professor of...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
collaboration and innovation between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences by supporting students enrolled in the MS/MBA joint degree program. E Sharyn and Matt Eby...
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Courses & Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
Courses & Case Studies Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi teach courses at Harvard Business School on impact investing and sustainable finance. The case list below highlights case materials used in various courses...
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Student Research - Doctoral
Iavor I. Bojinov Technology and Operations Management 2 results Amitabh Chandra Technology and Operations Management 1 results Prithwiraj Choudhury Technology and Operations Management 2 results Shawn A....
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This...
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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Professor Rebecca Henderson Become a purpose-driven leader by learning how to influence key stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. Sustainable Investing Professors View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management Background Note: Examining the Case for Investing for Impact By: Vikram S. Gandhi , Shawn Cole & Caitlin Reimers Brumme...
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
accounting fundamentals course, discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/week Enroll by October 10 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable Investing Professors View Details
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Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)
By: Shawn A. Cole
This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Shawn A. Cole : Winner of the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times...
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Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India
By: Shawn A. Cole
This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel way. Studying banks in India, I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural...
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Agribusiness;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Political Elections;
State Ownership;
Banking Industry;
India
Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-001, July 2008.
- August 2007
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
By: A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden
This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in...
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Banerjee, A., Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden. "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no. 3 (August 2007): 1235–1264.
- January 2021
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'Mobile'izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability
By: Shawn A. Cole and A. Nilesh Fernando
We examine the role of management in agricultural productivity by evaluating a mobile-phone based agricultural advice service provided to farmers in India. Demand for advice is high, and advice changes practices, increasing yields in cumin (28%) and cotton (8.6% for a...
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Agricultural Extension;
Informational Inefficiencies;
Technology Adoption;
Agribusiness;
Information;
Mobile Technology;
India
Cole, Shawn A., and A. Nilesh Fernando. "'Mobile'izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability." Economic Journal 131, no. 633 (January 2021): 192–219.
- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control...
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Enroll by October 17 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable Investing Professors Shawn...
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Caroline M. Elkins : Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was selected for the 2022 Books of the Year by...
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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