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  • November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Balancing Impact: Modeling the Future at British International Investment

By: Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd
In 2022, British International Investment (BII), the £8.1 billion development finance arm of the British government, implemented a new impact measurement system called the Impact Score to align its financial and impact objectives systematically. The tool was designed... View Details
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  • May 2022
  • Article

Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

By: Shawn A. Cole, Benjamin Iverson and Peter Tufano
This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Banking; Savings; Prize-linked Savings; Lottery; Household; Personal Finance; Saving; Banks and Banking
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  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI) in developing countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359-381. Emerald Group Publishing, 2012 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Partners, and the Ford Foundation. Description of silent animated video above: Learner scrolls through video interviews from prominent business leaders About the Professors Shawn Cole Sustainable Investing... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

Birchbox Defends Against Copycat Competitors Peter A. Coles and Benjamin EdelmanHarvard Business School Case 912-010 Birchbox offers trial-sized beauty products delivered monthly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

to invest in social service provision. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212055-PDF-ENG China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor Shawn Cole and Lilei XuHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2019
  • Supplement

SJF Ventures-Transforming Transportation with TransLoc?

By: Shawn A. Cole
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  • August 2020
  • Supplement

Nancy Pfund DBL Partners

By: Shawn A. Cole
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  • August 2020
  • Supplement

Mike McCreless- Root Capital

By: Shawn A. Cole
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  • September 2007
  • Teaching Note

BASIX (TN)

By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching note to (207-099) and (207-108). View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insurance Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and managers are making... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors

By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Impact Portfolio Companies; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Investment Portfolio; Business Ventures; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; United States
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  • February 2009 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Fannie Mae: Public or Private?

By: David A. Moss, Cole Bolton and Kimberly Hagan
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission considered was the Federal National Mortgage Association, or... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Institutions; Mortgages; Government and Politics; Business History; Privatization; Private Sector; Laws and Statutes; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • April 2009
  • Teaching Note

SKS Microfinance (TN)

By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208137]. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Financing and Loans; Valuation; Social Enterprise; Equity; Financial Markets; Microfinance; For-Profit Firms; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • February 2009
  • Article

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality?

By: Shawn A. Cole
Keywords: Finance; Growth and Development; Banks and Banking; Ownership; Quality
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  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

  PublicationsHigher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Authors:Michael Beer, Russel A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne