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Finance, Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Shawn Cole Sustainable Investing Finance Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Jacob Cook Digital Marketing & AI Workshop Marketing Fall 2025 Q1 1.5 Ben Creo Field... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, Andrew Healy & Eric D. Werker
  • 31 May 2024
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Q+A with New Rock Center Director Elise Bates

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Shawn Cole Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 General Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Willy... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2015
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Business for the Other Billions

Keywords: impact investing
  • 02 Feb 2015
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The Smart Way to Teach Children About Money

  • 2008
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Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

By: Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano and John Thompson
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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... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Credit; Personal Finance; Spending; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; United States
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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, View Details

  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 03 Nov 2018
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Think Saving for Old Age Can’t Be Fun? Try Making It a Game

  • 04 Feb 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to Environmental Sustainability. Past Roads and Future Prospects

Keywords: by Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Shawn A. Cole, John Ehrenfeld, Andrew A. King, and Auden Schendler
  • 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... View Details

      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... View Details
      • 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... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
      • 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... View Details
      Keywords: by Tim Gray
      • 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... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology