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2012
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A Field Study on the Acceptance and Use of a New Accounting System

By: V.G. Narayanan, Ranjani Krishnan and Jamshed J. Mistry

This study examines the attitudes, use, and acceptance of a new accounting system in a pharmaceutical corporation that switched from an Activity Based Costing System to the Theory of Constraints System (TOC). Using structuration theory as a framework, we posit that... View Details

Keywords: Theory Of Constraints; Structuration; Field Study; Accounting; Innovation and Invention

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01 Mar 2009
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Last fall’s Harvard-Yale football game (10–zip, Crimson ) marked the fortieth anniversary of Harvard’s famous 29-29 “victory” over the Elis. HBS later became a tiebreaker of sorts: Five players from Yale’s 1968 team went on to get MBAs at HBS, compared to four from the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2006
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Field Studies a Win-Win

Field studies give small teams of second-year HBS students, working under faculty supervision and guidance, an opportunity to get a handle on the kinds of real-world problems that individual companies are... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Article

Information and Managers: A Field Study

By: W. J. Bruns Jr. and S. M. McKinnon

Keywords: Information; Management

1987
Book

Accounting and Management: Field Study Perspectives

By: Robert S. Kaplan and William J. Bruns

Keywords: Accounting; Management; Perspective

2018
Chapter

Behavioral Empirics and Field Experiments

By: Maria Ibanez and Bradley R. Staats

As the study of behavioral operations has continued to grow, an increasing number of researchers are turning to the field (e.g., conducting observational studies or natural or field experiments) to push deeper in order to find the answers to relevant behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Operations; Empirical Operations; Empirical Operations Management; Field Experiments; Behavior; Operations; Management; Research

22 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

WalkRounds -based programs and performance has not been rigorously examined in a set of randomly selected hospitals. Objective: To fill this research gap, we conducted a randomized field study of a... View Details

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health

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Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Go to Market Sales Playbook Field Study Course Number 6665 Senior Lecturer Lou Shipley Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits Project/Paper Overview: This... View Details

November 2019
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Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning

When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details

Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention

2002
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Time Pressure and Creativity in Organizations: A Longitudinal Field Study

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Jennifer S. Mueller, William B. Simpson, Constance N. Hadley, Steven J. Kramer and Lee Fleming

2023
Working Paper

Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright

The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy

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Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team

By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Rosanna K. Smith

Demographic diversity in the United States is rising, and increasingly, work is conducted in teams. These co-occurring phenomena suggest that it might be increasingly common for work to be conducted by demographically diverse teams. But to date, in spite of copious... View Details

Keywords: Field Experiment; Groups and Teams; Demographics; Diversity; Attitudes

2009
Article

Shedding Light on the Gender Gap through Randomized Field Studies

By: Connie Chen, Felipe Kast and Dina D. Pomeranz

1988
Chapter

Originality in Management Accounting Systems: Field Studies of the Processes

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Accounting; Innovation and Management

April 1981 (Revised June 1982)
Case

Social Impact of Agribusiness: A Field Study of ALCOSA in Guatemala

By: Ray A. Goldberg

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What We Can Learn from Five Naturalistic Field Experiments that Failed to Shift Commuter Behaviour

By: Ariella S. Kristal and A.V. Whillans

Across five field experiments with employees of a large organization (n = 68,915), we examined whether standard behavioural interventions (“nudges”) successfully reduced single-occupancy vehicle commutes. In Studies 1 and 2, we sent letters and emails with nudges... View Details

Keywords: Commuting; Field Experiments; Nudges; Behavior; Change

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