Field Studies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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A Message from Dean Clark

technology will play a role in a new initiative that has grown out of the strong interest many of our students have in entrepreneurship and high tech-businesses. This January, our Intensive Field Study... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

with the MBA, I’ll be better equipped to identify promising new ideas in the field and help bring them to fruition in clinical practice.” What has your experience as a first-year resident been like? “For the first few weeks of residency,... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug

mention his entrepreneurial spirit—can be traced back to his time at HBS. As a student, he loved former HBS lecturer Irving Grousbeck's popular course on starting new ventures and conducted a field study of... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Telecommunications; Information; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 2021
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Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked... View Details

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Use of Electronic Resources | Baker Library

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2.6 Sample Disciplinary Violations | MBA

officials, recruiters, or others Misrepresenting or failing to disclose intent of research or field study Misrepresenting one's identity (e.g., when sending an email) Unauthorized use of HBS or Harvard name... View Details

Expanding Horizons

enabled me to see issues that I have studied as a historian in new ways. Often, these conversations led me to ask new questions in my research. I particularly benefited from hearing how MBA students understood and responded to business... View Details

17 Apr 2014
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Striking a Balance

1989. “She saw the tension between being mothers, wives, and professional managers.” It was a passion for Wilson, who had planned a research project on these issues before succumbing to cancer in 2003. Wilson took the HBS field View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

Employee theft and fraud: $600 billion. "The costs to business and society are striking," she said. Gino, an associate professor and behavioral economist at HBS, studies ethical decision making and the psychology of moral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

Study Results Author:Robert Simons Abstract This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

2025 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Field Course: Go to Market Sales... View Details

21 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 21

traces the consequences of these differences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44781 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions By: Hall,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Effect of Federal Taxes on Growing Enterprises . Study No. 2 focused on Polaroid as representative of the post-war financial issues facing new, expanding firms without large capital resources. Both graduates of Harvard's economics... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

Profile

Paul Lenehan

of cold calls." Tribes and technology For his EC year, Paul would like to pursue a field study "in a 'tribe' with a similar passion for emerging media. In particular, I'd like to look at online... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

valuable—effect: When workers cross geographic borders to work together, their different cultural experiences and fields of expertise create new knowledge. “That ‘recombined knowledge’ is greater than the sum of its parts,” he says. “If... View Details

Keywords: April White

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological... View Details