FIELD 2 - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
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Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

gift to help launch the FIELD 2 program. “The world has changed,” says Rubenstein, a member of the HBS Board of Dean’s Advisors and cofounder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group. “To prepare for 21st-century... View Details

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1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School | MBA

Class Sessions Allowed RC case-based course 6 class sessions FIELD Immersion and Joint Degree seminars 2 class sessions EC case-based long course (28-session course) 6 class sessions EC case-based short... View Details

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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

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Joseph Abel

time I left two years later, we had covered almost two thousand homes.” HBS opens a global perspective on global warming Like many MBA candidates, Joe came to HBS to diversify his skill sets and expand his range of experience. His FIELD... View Details

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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

than any method based primarily on telling the student how to do business.” Dean Wallace B. Donham , “Business Teaching by the Case System,” 1922. 2 Founded in 1908, HBS was one of the country’s earliest graduate programs in business... View Details

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Folafolu Folowosele

cultural impact. In his FIELD 2 trip to Chongqing, Fola experienced yet another example of the power of cultural outreach. “Our client, Owen Education, asked us to expand their ESL business in China. While... View Details

28 Jul 2016
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Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School

business in a new environment is among the best ways to build a greater understanding of global markets. My time on the continent also included visits to six other African countries and added to a number of other countries visited during HBS thanks in part to programs... View Details

18 Jan 2017
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HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

help to lay the groundwork for field-based MBA courses. During eight days in January 2016 for their FIELD 2 experience, 114 first-year students worked with businesses in Accra and Johannesburg. Also in... View Details

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Blake Landro

opportunities to “show how business can do incredible things for all its stakeholders. Stakeholders aren’t just investors. They’re your customers, your community, your employees. A business leader is responsible to so many people – more so than any other profession.”... View Details

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1.9 Course Registration | MBA

sessions with meetings twice daily in one quarter Exam or paper/project Field Courses 3.0 credits 14 sessions in early quarter or may hold several meetings across term Project Immersive Field Courses 3.0... View Details

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Rob Casper

coming to HBS. And I really appreciate the veteran community on campus, a great group of people with similar experiences. We’re struggling through it together. We help each other out.” Often teamwork means leadership in entirely unexpected venues. Rob’s View Details

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Ann Chao

your cases are the moral dilemmas. Students push themselves to be genuine and accountable.” Ann’s FIELD 2 experience took her into new territory, both literally – to Accra, Ghana – and figuratively, into the... View Details

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Ruth Cenat

the classroom, choosing a Field 2 country where I was not able communicate, and working with a nonprofit to use design thinking to help children create change, I’ve created great relationships and have... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Global Reach | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

offered an opportunity for faculty from U.S. colleges and universities to learn: the preparation of a case from gathering field notes to final draft; how to teach with cases; and grading and evaluation of student performance. The program... View Details

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Management January 2026 J 3.0 Launch Lab/Capstone 2 Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top Y Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits David Yoffie Strategy and Technology Strategy Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Royce Yudkoff... View Details

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John Speer

that’s how I trained for the B-2.” John’s FIELD 2 experience in Brazil opened up an entirely new challenge as well. His assignment: an online shoe retailer, Dafiti.com, looking for a customer-loyalty program... View Details

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Nikki Skovran

she says. In the classroom, she appreciated the way the case-study method challenged students. “I like the way the professors push back – I equate it to a friendly cross-examination.” Outside the classroom, Nikki has enriched her business education with her View Details

22 Aug 2024
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LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive View Details

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering, manufacturing, and View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

looked for [Lowell] and found that he was President of a university called Harvard... In my family we had never heard of Harvard," Doriot remembered. 2 When the young Frenchman told Lowell of his ambitions to run a factory, Lowell advised... View Details

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