Natural Field Experiment - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

some unique issues, which is why they have evolved as a specialized field of ethics. One of those unique issues is the sheer size and frequency of the ethical challenges that businesspeople must face. It is not unusual for those in... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

with a warm communication style, both in a field experiment (Study 2) and in a laboratory experiment (Study 3). This was driven by the fact that offers delivered in tough... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Partners - Case Method Project

Pascagoula, MS Subjects: Problems in American Democracy, Field Experience in Social Studies, AP U.S. History MS 6 of 13 Laura Guidry Germantown High School Madison, MS Subjects: AP US History, US History... View Details

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

mission is the starting point for its culture. The nature of a mission statement matters only if leaders and their employees believe in it and live it. In my research, too often I’ve found that leaders are content to check the box on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

is basically a genetic endowment, but creativity is not. Nurture trumps nature as far as creativity goes. Six other creativity studies of identical twins confirm the Reznikoff et al. result: roughly 25 percent to 40 percent of what we do... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

December 2010
Article

Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt

How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Boundaries; United States

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09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

more money to do the job or you make the job easier to do.” Given the critical nature of the crisis, the company opted to do both. In addition to raising wages, it also sought to ease the burden and lower its attrition rate for new... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Dusty Register

depth of conversations I experience on a daily basis and relish in the opportunity to know my classmates on a consistently deeper level. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A LEGO set designer, despite having nearly zero... View Details

Keywords: CPG

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives alone or with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

problem-solving process. To pursue the efficacy of collaboration the research team developed a straightforward experiment that mirrored real-world problem-solving work. Rather than start from scratch, they customized a platform called... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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

23 May 2018
News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, majoring in art history, a subject that helped her “look at things from many different angles,” she says. “My father was interested in technology and impressed upon me how important it was to business,” adds Johnson,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Rachel H Chung

with me. Coming to HBS is like Being at the world’s best test kitchen. I feel like I’m constantly tasting new flavors and experimenting with new recipes. Before HBS, I had minimal exposure to various industries and certain subjects, and... View Details

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

practical implications of these findings. For example, should managers save certain tasks for days when skies are gray? “A field study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?” The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

we all experience some degree of this pressure in our own daily work lives, in this series of studies I examined what happens to team dynamics and performance when the pressure is significantly intensified. Ironically, Gardner found that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

http://hbr.org/2012/09/will-working-mothers-take-your-company-to-court/ar/1 Working PapersColocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors:Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

and Unleashing Capability Featured Exercises Explore the internal drivers of your motivations as a leader through the Personal Values Questionnaire self-assessment Video upload: Deepen your understanding of how others experience you as a... View Details

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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

opportunity in health care. Innovating in Health Care: Field Course This course is for students interested in careers in financing, leading or creating innovative health care services, health insurance, health IT, or medical technology.... 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