Field Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
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Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

provider behavior.” To that end, Ashraf has designed and conducted numerous field studies, including several in Zambia. One study targeted Zambia’s high birthrate with an experiment based on improving access... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jun 2015
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Exploring Global Business Practices

today’s classrooms reflect our global society. In the MBA Program, all students in the first year get hands-on exposure to organizations in emerging markets through the January module of the FIELD (Field Immersion View Details

Expanding Horizons

BHI's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History offered me an incredible opportunity to learn and grow as a business historian. I arrived at HBS with research and teaching experience in the history of US business, but my time at HBS has... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

centers have enabled us to deliver a truly global education and enriching field experiences for our students. Our faculty has been able to pursue more international research. The centers have also enhanced... View Details

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

26 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 26

interdisciplinary, with economists and business historians joining together to confront theory with empirical evidence. Publisher's Link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415532716/ Working PapersNo Margin, No Mission? A Field... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS - MBA

courses Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) and Field Immersion Experience for Leadership Development (FIELD). In addition, he is an instructor in the executive education course The Business of... View Details

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DAY IN IFC: Safiya Karsan (MBA 2017), United Kingdom - MBA

second-year student (EC) at Harvard Business School. I am sharing a glimpse into our incredible experience in London where roughly 50 ECs spent two weeks on an Immersive Field Course on Real Estate and... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

A generous gift from Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) will establish a new chair at HBS and support teaching and learning in the field of information technology as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies at Harvard University.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

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Being a Student Mom at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal

Swearengin: Leadership with the game on the line. Photo courtesy Julian Swearengin Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) has loved football ever since he began playing the game at age 5. “Growing up poor and on welfare in Detroit, the classroom and the View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Creighton Taylor

complement his investment background with “qualitative skills, learning different ways of doing things. The case method is good at showing you there’s ninety-three ways to successfully run the foundations of a business.” All the virtues of HBS’s approach and... View Details

26 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

Bush, senior manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; and Zoë Chance, assistant professor of marketing at Yale School of Management. Putting ‘repayment-by-purchase’ to the test A field experiment... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

required meeting at the final fall session on December 5 Travel Dates: Arrive: Sunday, January 5 and depart on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (Mumbai and Bangalore) Course Fee: $3,500 Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation

early-stage challenges with an eye toward scaling operations after graduation. “The cases in Globalization and Emerging Markets were about business realities I’ve been living every day,” he notes. “Finance was the subject where I had the least View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Patrick Akl

careers.” Variety of practical experiences In his FIELD 2 international immersion, Patrick once again went somewhere new to him, China, where he and his colleagues helped a shoe manufacturer prepare its... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

hospital’s President’s Council in early May. Bundling isn’t new. It has been proven to work at a handful of hospitals across the country, including the Texas Heart Institute in Houston and Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. Their View Details

Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance

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Introducing the HBS Heartland Club - MBA