by Shawn Cole - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jul 2012
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cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising association may be accounted... View Details

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Finance Faculty - Faculty & Research

Administration Shawn A. Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Mihir A. Desai Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance John D. Dionne Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Wenxin Du... View Details

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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Leadership Shawn Cole Initiative Chair; John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

unfavorable given the highly contentious... 2025 Working Paper Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole ,... View Details

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Social Impact Collaboratory

Mission Statement Led by Harvard Business School Professor Shawn Cole (Finance), the HBS Social Impact Collaboratory is a research-led effort to advance the understanding and... View Details

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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... View Details

October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
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Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski

ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards

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Our Team - Impact Investments

Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance... View Details

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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... View Details

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Impact Investing | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

perspectives, including Shawn Cole , Vikram Gandhi , Michael Chu , Kash Rangan , George Serafeim , Julie Battilana , and others. As importantly, our alumni are shaping, accelerating and leading investing for... View Details

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Impact Investments

sector. Recent Research What Do Impact Investors Do Differently? By Shawn Cole, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth The Project on Impact Investments’ Impact Investment Database View Details

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Business for Social Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Business Strategy 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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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

technology. Since its founding in 2022, Harvey had transformed how lawyers approached research, drafting, and document analysis, securing major law firms and corporate legal teams as clients. By early 2025, Harvey had surpassed $50... View Details

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance... View Details

February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
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OpenInvest

By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller

Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry

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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Enroll by April 3 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable Investing Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG)... View Details

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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... View Details

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

practice to be an impact investor? Initiative Chair Shawn A. Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Faculty Lynda M. Applegate Baker Foundation Professor Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business... View Details

2009
Other Unpublished Work

The Pecora Hearings

By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen

In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand... View Details

Keywords: Financial History; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry

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December 2010 (Revised June 2018)
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The Pecora Hearings

By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen

In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora,... View Details