Field Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2023
Blog Post

HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025)

dream of stepping onto the field without their cleats, I was reminded that I should never approach a day without full dedication to my team. Those cleats became symbolic of my responsibility to always be prepared and they represented a... View Details

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Markov chain, we are able to combine these two models to characterize the putts-to-go for the field from any distance on the green for the PGA TOUR. The results of this Markov model match both the empirical expectation and variance of... View Details

13 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

loan officers were more judicious about issuing loans when their bonus incentives were tied to whether the loans performed well. More surprisingly, they found that incentives actually have the power to distort loan officers' perceptions of how a loan will perform. An... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Entrepreneurs. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1986, she also served as Co-Chair of the HBS MBA Program, Chair of Field Based Learning, and Co-Chair of the Harvard Policy Group on Networked Government Services. Prior to joining the HBS... View Details

08 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Cespedes explains a strategic process for hiring and managing an effective salesforce: book excerpt Build your Team: Recruitment And Selection From Aligning Strategy and Sales By Frank Cespedes Putting the right team on the field is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

(JD/MBA 2021) and Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021), co-presidents of the JD/MBA Association, offer their perspectives on the program and what they have learned about the HLS/HBS joint degree. It’s a four-year program that gives you the full View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship, branding, and innovation expertise. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing and human resource model has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love it and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer View Details

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

broader field of study. Microprocess research in organizational studies reveals implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which microprocesses are treated as parts of larger systems. We suggest that phenomenological... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Events - Business History

business leaders in emerging markets since 2008. These are hosted on a public website featuring full interview transcripts and associated video clips that are free to download and use for teaching, research, or general interest. At this online conference, speakers... View Details

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

world's foremost scholars in fields ranging from psychology to economics, sociology, and history. “Leadership is based on complex phenomena." -Rakesh Khurana As Khurana explains below, leadership—what it means, why it matters—is an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Minneapolis. “It was a big decision to stay in Silicon Valley,” Datar says. “The demand for data-science professionals is through the roof, so you have to go where the experts are. Desai credits the success of data science at Target to this team.” View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

During World War II, the predecessor to the US Central Intelligence Agency produced a secret field manual detailing how “citizen-saboteurs” could disrupt the operations of enemy organizations. In addition to inflicting physical damage,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

“launching pad” for students just starting to explore interests in social impact across multiple sectors, or for students with deep experience in the space looking to meet like-minded peers. Social Enterprise Conference An annual two-day... View Details

Portrait Project

Kanwulia Gwam

The grass field in front of my apartment building became whatever us neighborhood kids needed it to be. On this cool summer afternoon, it became my laboratory, and the experiment was my identity. I was in... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

and Microsoft's Bing - and operations management for Benihana Sushi and OXXO. This exposed me to various fields where business skills can have a profound impact. After our classes we were privileged enough to hear from HBS alumni about... View Details

12 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 12

are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

them. It was a night that would change both his son’s life and D’Antonio’s. Today, both men work in the field of addiction treatment. D’Antonio’s son, now with more than six years of continuous sobriety, is trained as a peer recovery... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

EC, we have Immersive Field Courses that are faculty-led learning experiences offered abroad and in the United States. They explore specific topics, such as climate change and entrepreneurship. There are... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

30 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

human time or human understanding of complexity, I can identify the things that GPT suggests actually matter, and then iterate on those with real data and real consumers to get human-based results,” she says. Developing the right prompt Products included in the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

seemed to neatly divide politics and markets, states and economies. "The new history of American capitalism targets the lived experience of people and groups as they assimilate—and reshape—the political economy they engage" The... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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