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It started three years ago as an audacious experiment to invert the venerable Harvard Business School case-study model: Push fledgling M.B.A. students out of the classroom nest and fly them around the globe to take up real-world business challenges on their own turf. Now, the Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development program, or FIELD, is a transformative core piece of the first-year M.B.A. curriculum, matching scores of companies and organizations in far-flung, emerging markets in need of intellectual capital with hundreds of students who want an opportunity to develop and test their skills and ideas in consequential ways. Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration, said the impetus for the program stems from research showing that when companies go global, they often find it difficult to replicate their local success because of the many ways that businesses must adjust as they enter an unfamiliar environment. “FIELD 2 is all about making...