Howard - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

children feeling every skinned knee and caring so much about their well-being. Our family found our way through it. I believe it is important to talk about these things. Back to top H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933) Posthumous award HBS Distinguished Service Award, 1987... View Details

23 Oct 2019
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Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society

Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. Professor Robert Huckman kicks off the daylong Viewpoints program for first-year MBA students. In their first year at HBS, MBA students take a dozen required courses vital to... View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

01 Aug 2001
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Reunions to Remember

Once again the early days of June brought hundreds of alumni back to Soldiers Field to reconnect with familiar faces, make some new friends, get a close-up view of the newest developments on campus, and catch up on the latest research by HBS faculty members. Hailing... View Details

Keywords: Harvey V. Fineberg; Robert C. Clark; Wake Smith

28 Mar 2014
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Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs

Keywords: public entrepreneurs; government innovation; Government

01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith

A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

that the limited presence of this kind of corporate leadership is one of the elements causing more stress and cynicism in our population. Business leaders who demonstrate long-term commitment and vision? How about Howard Schultz at... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle

members Carliss Baldwin, Carl Kester, Michael Porter, and Howard Stevenson.) Interviews with some of the MBA alumni currently enrolled in or recently graduated from the Doctoral Programs underscore that observation. But first, you have to... View Details

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

02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple

Managers know that individuals who have experience working together can influence team performance. Yet most managers underestimate the benefit of such familiarity, according to Robert S. Huckman, Professor and Chair of the MBA Required Curriculum. Studying teams in... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Case Study: On the Record

Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an estimated 40 million new records and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up

others, I found that the founders with the most enviable outcomes had usually followed basic principles of entrepreneurship. Most encouraging, I discovered, is that those principles can be learned. Howard Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Baker... View Details

Keywords: Bill Murphy Jr.; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2025
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Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo ngai

28 May 2019
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Cure All

Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun (left) and Professor Leemore Dafny (right); image by John Ritter Professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management,... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

anticipated," Hart concludes. Creating a Powerful Program In 1996, when Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Howard H. Stevenson remarked to Assistant Professor Myra Hart that it was time the School offered a special program... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

and support it by three bullet points by early morning on class day. Initially, students submitted their responses via a text-based VAX system. Bhide, along with Professor Howard H. Stevenson, who also taught the class, then upgraded the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not surprisingly, when the coronavirus hit,... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

Howard Stevenson (MBA 1965) and Shirley Spence (Timberline) HBS professor emeritus Stevenson shares what he has about investing, wealth, and life. Topics include six truths gleaned from a life journey; the nature and dynamics of wealth;... View Details

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