Shawn A. Cole
Shawn A. Cole
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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Shawn Cole is an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the second half of the required finance course in the MBA program.
His research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on banking, microfinance, insurance, and the relationship between financial development and economic growth. Before joining the Harvard Business School, Professor Cole worked as an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has also served as chair of the endowment management committee of the Telluride Association, a non-profit educational organization.
He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was an NSF and Javits Fellow, and an A.B. in Economics and German Literature from Cornell University.
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