Field Studies - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g., construction, analysis, or intervention), and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose

enriching the way I think and act on a daily basis. Moving forward, I know I will always carry with me the purpose to create, the purpose to motivate, and the purpose to engage. Create Within my Peek cohort, I connected with a melting pot of peers. Majoring in View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer

The winners of the 1996 R. Hugh Uhlmann Award for outstanding research in the field of agribusiness have a truly global perspective -- all three recipients are international students. For their prize-winning project, Peter Baeza... View Details

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge. While... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

communication exchanges, are not going to happen unless managers better integrate common standards. McAfee studied IBM's B2B midrange ordering system and interviewed key players to find out what worked and what didn't. Using his case... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

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Harvard Business School

the corporate and public sectors. The individuals profiled here—Andrew F. Brimmer, James I. Cash Jr., Linda A. Hill, and David A. Thomas—have demonstrated their dedication to the School's ideals and core mission through their active engagement with students, purposeful... View Details

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

PublicationsPerspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer Publication:Journal of Creative Behavior 46, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Scholars began serious study into the social psychology... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics,... View Details

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

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/BFSWIPO.pdf Luck or Cheating? A Field Experiment on Honesty with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We run an... View Details

25 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

change was a reality we lived with every day – experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and increases in sea levels that caused thousands of Maldivians to migrate to my city. This reality drove my decision to... View Details

19 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

classmates - not only in class but also between classes and at section events. The school also draws myriad speakers who share topics they are passionate about, constantly expanding my learning in new areas. Through courses like FIELD... View Details

11 Feb 2016
Blog Post

First Came Love, then Came Business School

Native Canadians Jocelyne and Corey first met and fell in love when they were studying Mechanical Engineering at McMaster University in Ontario. While Jocelyne went on to work for PepsiCo in operations and supply chain roles after... View Details

14 Jul 2021
News

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... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

professor Nitin Nohria as a graduate student in 1994. To learn the extent to which chief executive turnover affects corporations, Khurana and Nohria studied the performance of two hundred of the largest U.S. companies before and after... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

look at what functions they perform. In the classroom, we study four functions: payments, movements of money from today to tomorrow (savings and investing), movements of money from tomorrow back to today (borrowing), and managing risk.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

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Training Course in Personnel Administration: 1937 - 1944 | Baker Library

study of the motivation which underlies behavior." (4) The curricula included economics, sociology, guidance, government, and educational psychology. Portrait of Edith G. Stedman, ca. 1921. Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library,... View Details

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Monne Williams

After graduation, Monne says simply, "I don't know. But I know the things I'll do next year – another IXP, a field study – will help me figure it out. I'm getting more and more comfortable not knowing... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

consumers to open their wallets a little more? Yes, we believe so. In an 11-day field experiment, we designed a PWYW promotion for a pack of gum at a student café under two different scenarios. In the first, we set up a sign with a pair... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

information while packaging that information for vendors who need it. "A sea change is upon us," say the authors. "Those managers who ignore the potential may find themselves managing without access to customer information." A byproduct of View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

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