field experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively

brands goes to digital media. What happens when products with sensors generate such volumes of customer experience data that advertising may be a less significant factor?” Jeff Polzer, of the Organizational Behavior faculty, introduced... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

tested their idea through a 2015 field experiment that involved 2,500 participants in a walking program offered by the Evidation health tracking platform. The program paid the walkers small amounts of money... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Wilder House | About

House is also home to the Global Experience Office, which administers the global immersion portion of the required first-year Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership... View Details

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

That means everyone is missing out from the lack of women inventors, Koning says. “Inclusion matters not just for who you work with, but also what your products and your strategies are,” says Koning. “You're potentially losing out on insights from their lived View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

management, marketing management, and governance. These chapters are combined with seventeen field cases written in China by members of the HBS/Tsinghua faculty, which illustrate the complexity of problems facing Chinese general managers.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

11-week-long field experiment in 2021 with 178,862 customers of Zippia, a career service agency. Customers seeking job postings received an email containing several recommended positions and basic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The experience of this company is hardly unique. Companies often capture additional business by offering more services. The list is wide-ranging: product or service customization; small order quantities; special packaging; expedited and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985

While her native country was not a friendly environment for a budding female entrepreneur, she made the best of the situation in order to meet her goal of saving enough money to attend business school. Similarly, when Lee applied to HBS, she set forth several ambitious... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

women—mostly Harvard undergrads—solved basic math problems for cash rewards. “While experimenting directly on executives in the field would yield interesting insights, starting in the laboratory with a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Artful Leadership | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

hypothesis through field studies, projects, and in the HBS classroom.” It proved correct. Named executive director of Boston Ballet in May 2014, where she and the company’s artistic director lead a staff of 750, Hodges continues to call... View Details

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

coach Build relevant startup experience to make you a better investor Join a Startup Bootcamp team Plug into the Investor community Join the Venture Capital/Private Equity , Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (ETA), and Impact Investing... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

dinner. I’d never seen such starry eyes. Every week, after an hours-long heated seminar discussion, we cooked, arranged flowers, wined and dined together at class dinners. And on a field trip to Asheville, for a behind-the-scenes tour of... View Details

24 Jul 2018
Blog Post

The Global Classroom: From Boston to Jakarta

learn about her experience in Jakarta through the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) course. FIELD Global Immersion is the exciting way that we end our first year at Harvard Business... View Details

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

interests by changing the expected decision delay. We characterize delay equilibria and explore how delay affects agenda preferences and, when possible, bargaining. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39907 No Margin, No Mission? A View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

earlier, but end up having more impact than folks who are more specialized when they engage with the new knowledge,” Nagle says. The findings give credence to the idea that people with a broader range of interests may be more likely to be aware of developments outside... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

interviewer asks the applicant questions about their work experience, their interests, and what they would contribute to the HBS community. For applicants interested in the JD/MBA, interviewers may ask why they want to pursue the joint degree and what View Details

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History - Entrepreneurship

initiatives—from the New Venture Competition to the Rock Accelerator to the Rock 100—have emerged as potent tools for would-be entrepreneurs to experience the practical reality of chasing a dream. The faculty includes some of the top... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

"replicate the DNA" at a variety of sites. We want to know where and when these Rules create great value, and where they do, how they can be implemented most effectively. Since we are empiricists, we are conducting experiments... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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