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  • March 2025
  • Article

Limited Accountability and Awareness of Corporate Emissions Target Outcomes

By: Xiaoyan Jiang, Shawn Kim and Shirley Lu
Firms are increasingly announcing targets to reduce their carbon emissions, but it is unclear whether firms are held accountable for these targets. Here we examine emissions targets that ended in 2020 to investigate the final target outcomes, the transparency of target... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion
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  • March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
  • Teaching Note

Social Finance, Inc. (TN)

By: Shawn Cole
Keywords: Investing; Nonprofit; Nonprofit Organizations; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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  • Article

Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance

By: Fenella Carpena, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced dramatic growth, reaching over 150 million borrowers worldwide. Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Legal Liability; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; India
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  • January 2019 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018

By: Emil Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira and Shawn O'Brien
In early 2018, Blackstone announced that John McCormick would succeed Tom Hill as President and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), the largest fund-of-hedge funds in the world by a sizeable margin. As new CEO, McCormick must... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Expansion; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

impact ventures. Sustainable Investing: What Does the Research Say? Professor Shawn Cole No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Asset owners, investors, and advocates are increasingly... View Details
  • September 2023
  • Supplement

Root Capital and the Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation: Guidelines and Suggestions

By: Shawn Cole
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  • March 2013
  • Teaching Note

SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis (TN)

By: Shawn Cole
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  • February 2013
  • Teaching Note

BANEX and the No Pago Movement (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Shawn Cole
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  • 02 May 2009
  • News

Electoral ATMs

  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

In Wake of Protests, Harvard Business School Faculty At Odds Over Divestment

  • 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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  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

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

April 2018 Management Science Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits By: Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno Abstract—Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at the same retailer are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2009
  • Teaching Note

First National Bank's Golden Opportunity (TN)

By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208072]. View Details
Keywords: Saving; Product; Interest Rates; Personal Finance; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Problems and Challenges; Demand and Consumers; Product Launch; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; South Africa
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  • Article

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India

By: Shawn A. Cole
Keywords: Failure; Voting; Banks and Banking; Agribusiness; India
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  • August 2018
  • Teaching Note

Acumen—Managing Towards Impact 2018

By: Shawn Cole
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-086. View Details
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  • 15 Nov 2019
  • News

What Deval Patrick Did At Bain Capital

  • 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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  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

Participants assigned to recall a purchase made for someone else reported feeling significantly happier immediately after this recollection; most importantly, the happier participants felt, the more likely they were to choose to spend a windfall on someone else in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • August 2020
  • Supplement

Mike McCreless- Root Capital

By: Shawn A. Cole
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