Field Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Kesha Kanakiya

Kesha is excited to help other students – particularly those looking to work in the fields she has experience in (consulting, PE Ops, Big Tech) as well as those trying to explore as much as possible while at... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

business and at HBS has never stopped exciting me." Indeed, many students change the path of their careers as a result of Antares's impact. Says Bloom, "A striking number of our Antares students say their field study was the defining,... View Details

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

15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

discovered while doing fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, in some countries, proximity to one’s neighborhood can be a more influential factor when deciding where to shop. During FIELD 2, part of the Required Curriculum course View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very high likelihood of landing... View Details

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?

the researchers then developed an efficient multi-product price optimization algorithm to concurrently recommend prices for all products on Rue La La’s site in a given day. Determining optimal pricing Then, in January 2014, they teamed up with Rue La La on a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Apparel & Accessories

02 Dec 2021
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Learning Curve

team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities,... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research

experiments, often facilitated by HBS’s network of global research centers and offices. Professor Karim Lakhani conducts field experiments using crowdsourcing—online networks of external problem solvers—to... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding

thought leadership. We must experiment more extensively with alternative modes of teaching, collaborate more (both internally and with other Harvard schools), and find ways to deliver more real-world View Details

Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

among her experience of Africa and something else emerges. The image she chooses reveals much about the spirit of the continent she has grown to love and much about her own optimism, quiet determination, and humanitarian commitment. At a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

and Daisy Azer (Columbia University Press) Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity... View Details

14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

class, and the field X courses taught by Professors Cohen and Sutton.” What did you like to do when you weren’t studying or in class? “FOMO is real! I invested a lot of time working on my startup and making new friends. The people I met... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)

reelection campaigns in West Virginia. Garth was a bit of a pioneer in the field of political consulting. I also worked at NBC, and then decided with all the changes in that industry I’d better get a grounding in business. I liked opening... View Details

Keywords: elections; consulting; analysis; polls

01 Sep 2011
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The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

events, and student field studies, and through its ability to convene leading businesspeople, academics, and public policymakers and to connect students to alumni mentors. “The initiative is an attempt to focus on a problem that is... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2000
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Tales Out of School

kids after school. Children need quality after-school activities." After completing her White House service in 1995, Hoit became managing director of Sylvan Learning Systems, a national supplemental education company. With that experience... View Details

11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better

difference every day, and I knew I had the skills to do it," says Tepper Singer, who is married to section-mate Dan Singer. "Not that many people have come to the non-profit field with business training." Her business skills helped on a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2012
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Changes for MBA Applicants

POWER OF REFLECTION: Changes to the MBA application process mirror FIELD exercises. For MBA candidates worried about writer’s cramp, here’s some good news: applicants to the Class of 2015 will be asked to author only two 400-word essays... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
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Where Are They Now?

of California, Berkeley, earlier that year. “Bob Anthony, the father of the management control systems field, was teaching at HBS, as were Dick Vancil, Bill Bruns, and John Dearden. These were the giants in the field at the time. There... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

successful capital campaign, as the dean who has steered HBS Publishing through a challenging digital transition, and as a committed and engaging teacher — that it’s easy to forget that Howard is first and foremost a brilliant scholar. He’s changed the way that our... View Details