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Finance - Faculty & Research

Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how... View Details
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Student Research - Doctoral

Organizations & Markets 3 results Iavor I. Bojinov Technology and Operations Management 2 results Ryan W. Buell Technology and Operations Management 1 results Amitabh Chandra Technology and Operations Management 1 results Prithwiraj Choudhury Technology and Operations... View Details
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, and learn how to incorporate them into investment decisions and measure and manage their impact. 6 weeks, 5... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

transient investors. This result is more pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in 'sin' industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion... View Details
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

proud professional and parent. However, after graduation Leahy was eager to stay on the East Coast, so instead of moving to Oregon, she enthusiastically joined Cole Haan, a Nike portfolio company. The Nike-owned company provided the... View Details
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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan 15 Dec 2024 HBS Magazine Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014) Re: Amanda Johnson (MBA 2014); By: Janelle Nanos Play Health Minute: Measure Costs Correctly for Better Patient Outcomes Professor Robert... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2023
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

within for the long term, and one that she would ultimately build in future roles as a proud professional and parent. However, after graduation Leahy was eager to stay on the East Coast, so instead of moving to Oregon, she enthusiastically joined View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Project on Impact Investments' Impact Investment Database

By: M. Diane Burton, Shawn Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Josh Lerner, Fanele Mashwama, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Impact investing has grown significantly over the past 15 years. From a niche investing segment with only $25 billion AUM in 2013 (WEF 2013), it experienced double-digit growth and developed into a market with an estimated $502 billion AUM (Mudaliapar and Dithrich... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Investment; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)

By: Shawn A. Cole

This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

grow your career. 6 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Enroll by May 1 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable Investing Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi Evaluate environmental, social, and... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

investments, including private equity and real estate. 5 weeks, 6–7 hrs/week Enroll by April 3 $1,850 Certificate Sustainable Investing Professors Shawn Cole & Vikram Gandhi... View Details
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Partners - Case Method Project

DC 6 of 23 Brandi Byrd Anacostia High School Washington, DC Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies TLI, US History, AP US History DC 7 of 23 Pam Cogas Coolidge High School Washington, DC Subjects: US History, AP US History DC 8 of 23 Katie View Details
  • 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India

By: Shawn A. Cole
This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel way. Studying banks in India, I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Political Elections; State Ownership; Banking Industry; India
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven... View Details
  • August 2007
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Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

By: A. Banerjee, Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo and L. Linden
This paper presents the results of two randomized experiments conducted in schools in urban India. A remedial education program hired young women to teach students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in... View Details
Keywords: Literacy; Teaching; Performance Improvement; Competency and Skills; India
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  • 21 May 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

to going to HBS, it wasn’t until I took “Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact,” taught by Professors Shawn Cole and Vikram Gandhi, that I had a chance to... View Details
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Events - Private Capital Project

Walker (HarbourVest Partners), led by George Serafeim (Harvard Business School) for the Limited Partnership Perspective. The Academic Perspective was provided by Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School) with... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen. Shawn A. Cole : Winner of the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times and the Impact and Sustainable... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Cole KIPP DC College Preparatory Washington, DC CA Malia Coloma-Smith Inderkum High School Sacramento, CA DC Christy Colt Basis DC Washington, DC Subjects: U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics NY Albert Cook New Paltz High School... View Details