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- January 2014 (Revised April 2025)
- Supplement
The PGA Tour (D)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details
Keywords: PGA Tour; Tim Finchem; Deane Beman; Golf; Professional Golf; Business Model; Value Creation; Adaptation; Sports; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Cole Magrath. "The PGA Tour (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 714-445, January 2014. (Revised April 2025.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Anchors Aweigh: Analysis of Anchor Limited Partner Investors in Impact Investment Funds
By: Shawn A. Cole, T. Robert Zochowski, Fanele Mashwama and Heather McPherson
This note describes results from a survey of “anchor investors” in impact funds. Anchor investors
are described as “generally the first investor to make a substantial capital commitment to a fund,”
(according to the Global Impact Investing Network, “GIIN”) and their... View Details
- October 2019
- Supplement
Tracy Palandjian, Social Finance
By: Shawn A. Cole and Fanele Mashwama
Cole, Shawn A., and Fanele Mashwama. "Tracy Palandjian, Social Finance." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 220-705, October 2019.
- February 2018
- Case
Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier
By: Shawn Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
In 2015 Root Capital, a pioneer in the impact investing space, began to explore how to more systematically integrate impact and financial management. After much deliberation, Root Capital landed on ex-ante rating system for any potential investment that produced a... View Details
Cole, Shawn, and Caitlin Reimers Brumme. "Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier." Harvard Business School Case 218-084, February 2018.
- September 2016 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Farmers Business Network: Putting Farmers First
By: Shawn Cole and Tony L. He
Cole, Shawn, and Tony L. He. "Farmers Business Network: Putting Farmers First." Harvard Business School Case 217-025, September 2016. (Revised August 2018.)
- April 2011 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Microfinance; Investment; Government and Politics; Crisis Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia
Cole, Shawn, and Baily Blair Kempner. "BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-102, April 2011. (Revised March 2013.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Evidence from the Firm: A New Approach to Understanding Corruption
By: Shawn A. Cole and Anh Tran
Due to its clandestine nature, most of what we understand about corruption comes from survey evidence and self-reported perceptions of corruption: this limits both the range of questions that can be asked and the precision of answers that can be provided. This chapter... View Details
- Article
Targeting Weather Insurance Markets
By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen... View Details
Keywords: Index Insurance; Labor Markets; Self-insurance; Self-protection; Weather; Insurance; Markets; Household; Risk Management
Mukherjee, Anita, Shawn Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Targeting Weather Insurance Markets." Journal of Risk and Insurance 88, no. 3 (September 2021): 757–784.
- December 2019
- Supplement
The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact
By: Vikram S Gandhi and Shawn A. Cole
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Shawn A. Cole. "The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 220-711, December 2019.
- November 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest 2018
By: Shawn A. Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Cole, Shawn A., and Caitlin Reimers Brumme. "Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest 2018." Harvard Business School Case 219-055, November 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Sustainable Investing Course Number 1495 Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi Professor Shawn Cole Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Paper/project The course won the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
Illustration by Dan Page In May, on the eve of the HBS application season, MBA Admissions director Dee Leopold (MBA 1980) announced a change for Class of 2016 hopefuls. There would be only one essay question: In addition to your résumé,... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas Publication:In Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking, edited by Paul Bloom and Edward Skloot. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Order this Book:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2018
- Teaching Plan
Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier
By: Shawn A. Cole and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- October 2019
- Supplement
Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF Partners)
By: Shawn A. Cole and Vikram S Gandhi
Cole, Shawn A., and Vikram S Gandhi. "Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF Partners)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 220-708, October 2019.
- March 2017
- Case
Acumen Fund: Lean Data in 2017
By: Shawn A. Cole and Tony L He
Cole, Shawn A., and Tony L He. "Acumen Fund: Lean Data in 2017." Harvard Business School Case 217-072, March 2017.
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Is High School the Right Time to Teach Self-control? The Effect of Financial Education and Mathematics Courses on Savings Behavior
By: Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry
Household financial behavior affects household welfare and the economy at large. Yet our understanding of how to improve financial decisions is limited. Recent literature and policy attention have focused on financial education, for example, in high school. We use... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Management; Secondary Education; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Household
Cole, Shawn A., and Gauri Kartini Shastry. "Is High School the Right Time to Teach Self-control? The Effect of Financial Education and Mathematics Courses on Savings Behavior." June 2010.
- 2014
- Chapter
Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market
By: Santosh Anagol, Shawn A. Cole and Shayak Sarkar
Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak Sarkar. "Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market." Chap. 12 in Modernizing Insurance Regulation, edited by John H. Biggs and Matthew P. Richardson. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
consumer behavior brought on by the pandemic to persist. Coles has seen a significant uptick in online ordering—Weckert estimates the company saw five years’ worth of adoption in six months—and people are... View Details