Free Range - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

"I remember thinking, I can't possibly leave this career track,' " says Camargo, who now has two daughters. "But when you have a child, your priorities just shift. It frees you from thinking that you have to keep going in the same... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

“The presentation detailed different scenarios that could lead to a Constitutional crisis and how things might unfold after election,” says Van Sheets (MBA 1983), who organized the event, which was open to Harvard Club of Dallas members as well. Sheets says 74 people... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students

students an opportunity to learn from the experiences of this remarkable group. (Award recipient James E. Burke [MBA ’49] was unable to attend.) During the one-hour session, audience members asked panelists for their views on a range of... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

me a ton of free chocolate. And now I am married to that man.” It sounds like the plot of a rom-com—and there are plenty of the standard detours along the way too—but that, in the words of Paige Gebhardt Cognetti (MBA 2014), is how she... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled here. With a View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

and planning for and managing a growing business needs careful thought. Drawing on a wide range of models, research, and case studies from across the business world, Merson offers practical advice and guidance on a View Details

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

trillion to date in worldwide government revenues through increased efficiencies in the sale of essential but difficult-to-auction entities ranging from radio wave frequencies to mineral and timber rights. Before the introduction of... View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm itself, did not leave time for... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation

internal funding I’ve received here,” Neeley says. Because HBS research funds supported her study, Neeley was free to report her findings in a completely uninhibited and unprecedented way. “When your work is not funded by outside... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly

with a free market, and replacing it with a government-owned or government-controlled airline industry. Although Emirates has done an extremely good job when it comes to customer service, I would argue that the primary reason for its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Books

to the employer. Later governmental measures protected workers in the event of unemployment and provided for security in retirement. Today, the government protects citizens from an array of hazards ranging from defective products, to... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart

broadly defined job description (“do whatever will benefit the college and the country”), we have also been free to take on additional roles, from government consulting work and advising the country’s nascent parliament to teaching... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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Prima Datarina

free and subsidized tickets. “As a mission-driven organization, we want to make performances available to the widest group of patrons possible,” says Hodges. “The range of pricing in a given house can be... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the View Details

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement

specifically for women and diverse, board-ready candidates. Any company that makes the Board Challenge pledge is given a free slate of highly qualified candidates. This combined expertise and access to a deep pool of Black talent... View Details