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- 02 Feb 2015
- News
The Smart Way to Teach Children About Money
- 2008
- Chapter
Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained
By: Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano and John Thompson
Cole, Shawn A., Peter Tufano, and John Thompson. "Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained." Chap. 2 in Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited, edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky, 65–91. Brookings Institution Press, 2008.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained
By: Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson and Peter Tufano
In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Credit;
Personal Finance;
Spending;
Taxation;
Consumer Behavior;
United States
Cole, Shawn A., John Thompson, and Peter Tufano. "Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-083, March 2008. (Revised April 2008.)
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Executive Education
By: Shawn A. Cole
Shawn Cole regularly teaches executive education. He has taught in the ACCION microfinance in the HBS-ACCION Microfinance Program on Strategic Leadership,
- 03 Nov 2018
- News
Think Saving for Old Age Can’t Be Fun? Try Making It a Game
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture capital specifically, with the sphere of impact investing no...
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by Rachel Layne
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could...
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- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
readily be reclaimed by investors in the firm who lost money." In a new research paper, coauthored with World Bank economists Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper, Cole explores how various performance...
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- 13 May 2011
- News
Do politicians use public sector banks to win elections?
Impact Entrepreneur Fireside Chat: Teaching Impact Investing at Harvard
Harvard Business School Professors Vikram Gandhi and Shawn Cole weigh in on teaching Impact Investing at Harvard Business School. The Impact Entrepreneur Luminarias Series is a live video webinar series featuring the leading lights in impact investing and...
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Fanele Mashwama
Fanele is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. His research interests are in empirical finance in low-income countries. Prior to graduate school he worked at McKinsey & Company, as a research assistant for Michael Kremer and Shawn Cole and at...
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- 19 Jul 2019
- News
The Day India’s Banks Died
- 17 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?
Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas...
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by Tim Gray
- 27 Mar 2016
- News
One Surprising Way to Get People to Save More
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Fuller partnered on the work with scholars at the Project on Workforce including Kerry McKittrick, co-director; Ali Epstein, research project coordinator; and research assistants Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, and Vasundhara Dash. The team...
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- 13 Aug 2012
- News
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory for why it...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2013
- News