Field Experiments - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2025
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Scaling New Heights

expanding into the medically tailored meals space, they turned to a team of HBS students for guidance on go-to-market strategies. “The experience of working with the HBS team on this study was great, very strategic, and didn't take away... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2025
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Forum

Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

15 Nov 2016
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China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

Second-year MBA student Anna Koscielecka (MBA 2016) spent two weeks in China during a January 2016 Immersive Field Course (IFC) that expanded her global perspective. “We fully immersed ourselves in Chinese business culture,” says... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Outtakes with Russ Wilcox

thought — being able to carry many complexities in your brain at the same time — is a certain skill that people who grow up reading literature develop. People who read IMs don’t.” Why e-readers are a good thing for civilization: “E-books bring reading back to a... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2015
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Encouraging Women Leaders

In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

Nancy Karch admits that when she arrived at Soldiers Field she had "almost no understanding of business." While pursuing a doctorate in mathematics at Northeastern University, she "stumbled upon the idea of business school" when she... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca

To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

19 Aug 2011
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i-lab Buzz

Approaching the i-lab on the walkway from Aldrich and Spangler. A kitchen lounge and video gaming area. There’s a small army of workers putting the finishing touches on the Harvard Innovation Lab, which will soon welcome MBA students enrolled in the new first-year... View Details

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

01 Mar 2013
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A Conversation with Dean Nohria

benefit to doing more, as is evident from our recent experience with the School's US Competitiveness Project. In pondering how to better understand the prospects for American competitiveness, we realized that our alumni represent a unique... View Details

04 Feb 2020
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In Harmony

months later, he was introduced to Beverly Sills of the New York City Opera, where the orchestra was about to go on strike. They needed someone with experience in labor relations. When Sills asked Weinstein if he had the experience, he... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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

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

09 Apr 2025
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The Working Parent Revolution

care field saw 15 to 20% of the capacity come out of the market during the COVID period. So that shrinkage in supply has made it even more difficult for working parents to find high quality options for child care. And so the only remedy... View Details

15 Feb 2022
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Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method

The first written case, a one-page narrative about management challenges at General Shoe Company, was taught in 1921 and marks the beginning of a century of case teaching. “Over time, as we would develop a series of cases in a field, we began to understand that View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Feb 2020
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Research Brief: May I Ask Your Advice?

online lab studies and a field experiment, all of which confirmed that asking for feedback produces more vague and limited responses, while asking for advice results in forward-thinking and actionable input. The difference boils down to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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 Sep 2003
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Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

key areas of work that reflect our commitment to improving the way we carry out our mission. MBA Admissions We continue to seek outstanding students from a wide range of backgrounds whose experience will enrich our classrooms. We... View Details

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

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

volunteers. “We heard from three organizations,” says the program’s chair, Mark Chussil (MBA 1979). “We selected two, and will field teams for both of them, based on their needs, and the skills and View Details