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Matthew Boys
Matt went hands-on in Chongqing, China, where his FIELD 2 team reviewed plans for a hotel that wanted to create the right kind of experience for a growing market of professionals. “The local market already... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
them would just give up in the latter half, because there was no way they could make quota.” An ideal setting for a field experiment The retailer was an ideal setting for a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
experiences that complement and extend classroom learning. One group explored China, another volunteered their services in New Orleans, and the third participated in a campus-based program focused on health sciences. For years, students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
(Sergey Nivens/iStock/Thinkstock) Starting a business, says HBS professor Tom Eisenmann, looks glamorous in The Social Network. “But a fair amount of it is moving boxes around. Not org chart boxes—actual boxes.” That’s the kind of insight Eisenmann says students get... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Curriculum | MBA
Manager (TEM) Finance II Leadership & Corporate Accountability (LCA) FIELD Global Capstone The Purpose of the Firm The Summer Work Experience Students fulfill the requirement through successful completion of... View Details
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Eric Sonnier
As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum... View Details
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Joseph Blair
his business unit managed: the famous Bobcat excavator. Yet Joe's experience at another manufacturer – FlexEnergy, a clean-tech company that makes microturbines – inspired “a passion for startups and smaller businesses” that encouraged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
firsthand experience: He spent seven weeks during January and February helping the field leadership of five United Nations relief agencies develop overall strategy and serving as deputy director for Mercy Corps, an innovator in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Sharique Hasan in a recent working paper. Their field research shows that the highest quality ideas are generated by people open to new experiences engaging with extroverted peers. In 2014, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
English,” he says. The best part of his job, says Offensend, is watching EDC’s work being used in the field and seeing its impact. One recent example thrills him. The percentage of female students who took AP computer science courses in... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Education Sector Opportunities at HBS
annual Social Enterprise Conference that draws speakers from across the social sector. Beyond the experience themselves, these events create the opportunity to build a network of diverse peers who share a common interest in education but... View Details
- 28 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School
take the time to come to HBS at all?” It is a fair question, and one that I considered deeply before matriculation and can reflect upon more fully now that I am on my way out. I came to HBS because I wanted to experience things I knew I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
donors such as David Rubenstein also makes it possible for the School to provide faculty-designed and -led field experiences where students can experience leading in an... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
important distinction between the two entrepreneurs was that Field created an experience for consumers in his department store, while Heinz made products-processed foods. Of course, there were aspects of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work
HBS. While the world of work is nothing new to either of these young alumni, they each acknowledge the significance of this initial year in their post-HBS careers. Although they came to Soldiers Field with different backgrounds, goals,... View Details
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Emmanuel Mensah
come here acting like you know everything, you’ll embarrass yourself,” he laughs. But along with his gifts of experience and intelligence, Emmanuel has brought something else to his classes that his sectionmates deeply appreciate: a trove... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
advancing the next big idea. The School relies heavily on annual gifts to the HBS Fund for early-stage support of breakthrough projects, courses, programs, and other initiatives.” As ventures like Field Immersion 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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Aurora Turek
psychology and was introduced to the field of Organizational Behavior. As a rising senior, she served as a summer research assistant at Columbia Business School and went on to accept a full time research position there after graduation.... View Details