by Shawn A. Cole - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2015
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HBS Professor Shawn Cole Named Faculty Pioneer by Aspen Institute Business and Society Program

13 May 2011
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Do politicians use public sector banks to win elections?

03 Nov 2018
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Think Saving for Old Age Can’t Be Fun? Try Making It a Game

13 Aug 2012
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When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

04 Jun 2013
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Can Good Financial Behavior Be Taught In High School?

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

01 Dec 2019
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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

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

hoped to advance an impact investing ecosystem in China. The course was taught by Shawn Cole, the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Lecturer Vikram S. Gandhi. In just weeks, she... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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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

15 Jan 2015
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Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

classmates and meet other alumni in the region, as well as with HBS faculty members and administrators. The evening featured remarks by Dean Nitin Nohria, Professor Shawn A.... View Details

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

Cole. Approximately 60 people attended the in-person event, held at JLL in Washington, to get insights from alumni working in the public sector and nonprofit space. Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

influence HBS and HSPH curricula. Chu and Bloom, for instance, lead an HBS-HSPH elective on social-impact investment that includes the Antares field studies, cotaught with HBS associate professor Shawn Cole... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

out the opportunities in America’s transportation and infrastructure challenges. And at events in China, Japan, and India, attendees heard from Professors Benjamin Esty and Shawn Cole about the latest... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

13 Jun 2021
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Leading Systemic Change

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

Norman A. Berg, OPM's faculty chairman. "The program is devoted entirely to training practicing entrepreneurs and is the most distinctive entrepreneurial offering of any kind anywhere." The predecessor of OPM, the Smaller Company... View Details

19 May 2021
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Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

Applegate opened the summit’s first theme, Rethinking Governance, by leading a case study called Leading in Turbulent Times. Other featured speakers included Jim Bildner, CEO, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation; Margaret Hall, CEO and... View Details