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- 29 Jan 2015
- Blog Post
Ask about the FIELD Immersion during your next interview
From Argentina to China, over 900 first-year students recently wrapped up a 10 day immersion experience with organizations around the globe. The immersion is part of the FIELD curriculum where student teams develop a new product or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
New Fund Supports FIELD Module 3
Module 3 of the new, yearlong required course called FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development). The fund is intended to be spent over two consecutive academic years. View Details
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they report to shareholders. In... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- September 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Technical Note
FIELD Global Immersion: Developing Customer Empathy
By: Jill Avery
The Design Thinking process begins with empathizing with potential customers. Empathizing, being aware of, interpreting, and understanding the thoughts of others, as well as being able to vicariously experience them oneself, requires the careful and deliberate study of... View Details
- September 1997
- Background Note
Some Thoughts on Doing Field Research
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Christensen, Clayton M. "Some Thoughts on Doing Field Research." Harvard Business School Background Note 698-020, September 1997.
- 2004
- Working Paper
Methodological Fit in Organizational Field Research
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Stacy E. McManus
- 11 May 2009
- News
Analysis: Open field led by Harvard
- 1987
- Book
Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives
By: Robert S. Kaplan and William J. Bruns
Kaplan, Robert S. and William J. Bruns, eds. Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise awareness about important causes. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
A Conversation on the FIELD Method at HBS - Facebook Live
In this Facebook Live session, Carrie Elkins, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, and three current MBA EC students (in their second year at HBS) have a conversation on the HBS MBA FIELD Method at HBS. The... View Details
- Web
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Immersive Field Courses (IFC) are three credit courses offered in the Elective Curriculum (EC) Year that offer an off-campus,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2023
- News
New Commanders Owner Josh Harris Takes the Field
A recent story in the Washington Post details the positive impression new owner Josh Harris (MBA 1990) is having on the Washington Commanders. Harris grew up nearby in Chevy Chase, MD, and the article notes that he told the team that he used to attend games at RFK... View Details
- September 2016
- Article
When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field
By: Duncan S. Gilchrist, Michael Luca and Deepak Malhotra
Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a discernible effect on productivity (in a context with no future employment opportunities).... View Details
Gilchrist, Duncan S., Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra. "When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field." Management Science 62, no. 9 (September 2016): 2639–2650.
- 28 May 2014
- News
Leveling the Playing Field for all Learners
has been an inequity in terms of preparing for college. By working with us to create not just a free tool—that’s ‘hey, if you can’t afford the fancy stuff, here’s the free one’-- but making the best thing that also happens to be free, I think we have a good shot at... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS
As part of the elective curriculum (EC) within the MBA program students have the opportunity in their second year to enroll in an Immersive Field Course – or “IFC” for short. These courses are driven by faculty research and industry... View Details
- June 2022
- Background Note
FIELD Immersion 2022: Salt Lake City, Utah
By: Alan MacCormack and Kerry Herman
MacCormack, Alan, and Kerry Herman. "FIELD Immersion 2022: Salt Lake City, Utah." Harvard Business School Background Note 622-095, June 2022.
- November 2014
- Case
Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang
By: Tom Nicholas and Jonas Peter Akins
Napalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its original inception it was nothing more than a technical challenge, and it was never intended to be used in indiscriminate antipersonnel warfare. The pathway of its development by a Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; War; Chemicals; Research and Development; Chemical Industry; Viet Nam; Cambridge; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Jonas Peter Akins. "Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang." Harvard Business School Case 815-060, November 2014.
- 23 May 2013
- Keynote Speech
The State of the Shared Value Field
Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School presents on the importance of shared value as business strategy. This keynote presentation was filmed on May 23rd, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Global Shared Value Leadership Summit. Learn more at fsg.org. Join... View Details
Keywords: Creating Shared Value
Porter, Michael E. "The State of the Shared Value Field." Global Shared Value Leadership Summit, FSG, Cambridge, MA, May 23, 2013.