Field Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

part to big-budget advertising behind the chains. But review sites are leveling the playing field by allowing consumers to learn as much about independent restaurants as they know about the chains. "This is one reason why consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery

new career path. “I became interested in the intersection of health care and finance, and that led me to HBS,” says Jeffrey, managing partner of the health care investment firm Great Point Partners. “HBS gave me the toolkit I needed to go into the health care... View Details

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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details

25 Aug 2015
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First Look Tuesday

large body of research and presenting a new framework that attempts to integrate these new findings, our hope is to motivate new research about how to support more moral workplace behavior that starts from... View Details

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Connell House | About

Partners. The Connells’ legacy of support for HBS has had a profound impact at the School and in the world at large. Work supported by the gift has led to the Leadership Initiative’s cutting-edge research and course development, including... View Details

26 Nov 2001
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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

personally was in the field for at least 180 working days during that time and even spent one week at a non-Toyota plant doing assembly work and spent another five months as part of a Toyota team that was trying to teach TPS at a... View Details

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

05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

if they did not obtain the second reward. We discuss implications for research on motivation and incentives. Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy Authors:A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin, Jan W. Rivkin, and Nicolaj Siggelkow... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jan 2014
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Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations

in pursuing a field study about successfully managing an identity change, or if your industry/organization has recently experienced a re-emergence, please see his listing on The Research Exchange. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Apparel & Accessories; Technology; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

informed by research and their work with hundreds of schools, scheduling experts Nathan Levenson and David James explore how strategic scheduling can turn a “good enough” schedule into one that supercharges learning and engagement without... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

best way for me to establish this argument is to trace the history of research on corporate boards and analyze the trends in that research, including the relative value of the types of data that researchers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

the MBA required curriculum. Professor Jackson is an organizational ethnographer and field researcher who... Rosabeth M. Kanter Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Rosabeth Moss Kanter... View Details

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education

Naylor Fitzhugh became a professor of accounting at Howard University, where he developed a marketing program, was known for incorporating field research in his teaching, and mentored many Howard students.... View Details

30 Jun 2022
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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

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details

29 Jun 2016
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The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

mental health is an outcome of improvements in economic development.” “We haven’t been as good at understanding the link between mental health and economics as we could be” A behavioral economist, Ashraf has spent most of her career conducting View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 May 2016
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Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

questions about past misdeeds. But a recent set of studies indicates that people genuinely do tend to forget the details of their own transgressions. In the paper Leaving Our Immoral Deeds in the Past, researchers show that engaging in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2020
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Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

shifts were canceled due to closures. When the lockdown continued, the company then furloughed 51,000 store employees—while still retaining 82 percent of its full-time store and field employees on payroll. To support workers through the... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

16 Apr 2007
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

remains a fascinating field for research that has not received much attention outside computer science. We believe that there are great opportunities for research here and we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff engaged in research and education in value based health care form the core team at HBS. In... View Details

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