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  • 04 Oct 2012
  • News

5 Key Questions to Gauge the Culture in Your Startup

  • Research Summary

Entrepreneurial Management

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is researching and writing on the need for and consequences of predictability. In work designed for a managerial audience, he is examining the roles played by organizations, cultures, and ethical systems in enabling individuals to predict the... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

that it’s easier for most people to make money than it is to give it away,” Stevenson recently told an audience at a Books@Baker event sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Many people don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 31 Dec 2010
  • News

Entrepreneur for the World Award

  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

to an even higher expectation on the part of those obsessed with "scorekeeping," regardless of their performance. In their new book, Just Enough, Laura Nash and Howard View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • December 2019
  • Background Note

An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship

By: Mitchell Weiss and Benjamin Henkes
Among the many competing definitions of entrepreneurship, the one adopted in “The Entrepreneurial Manager” at HBS was authored by Howard Stevenson in the 1980s and elaborated on in the decades since. Stevenson provided a managerial take on the term—he described... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Managers; Entrepreneurship
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  • Research Summary

MBAX2

Research in progress. A study of HBS's dual MBA couples and their family and work decisions. This research continues the observations about the critical dimensions of lasting success identified by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson in their book, Just Enough: Tools for... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • News

Don't Melt Down

  • Video

Personal Financial Planner

  • 20 Nov 2019
  • News

HBS Examines Alumni Social Impact in the World

  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

Way by a Billion-Dollar Fundraiser by Howard Stevenson with Shirley Spence... View Details
Keywords: Professor Bill George; Professor Joseph L. Bower; Professor Herman B. Leonard; Professor Lynn S. Paine; Professor Howard Stevenson; Professor Noam Wasserman; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • Research Summary

Enduring Success

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Harvard Business School graduates have achieved many different kinds of success as leaders of businesses, as entrepreneurs and in their public and private lives. After authoring or co-authoring 150 cases, serving on many corporate and non- profit boards, Howard... View Details
  • December 2007 (Revised February 2012)
  • Case

John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life

By: Howard H. Stevenson, Janet Kraus and Shirley Spence
The case follows the professional and personal lives of John and Andrea Rice, illustrating the challenge of "juggling" the multiple aspects of life (career, family, community, self) in the pursuit of a personal vision of success. Particular attention is paid to the... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

lifetime. HBS colleagues Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson expressed some of the same thoughts in a book they coauthored titled Just Enough, a personal determination made through... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet

alumni-founded ventures across the globe, and a wet-lab building for life sciences ventures. It is overseen by Thomas Eisenmann, the Howard H. View Details
  • June 1984 (Revised July 1999)
  • Background Note

Securities Law and Private Financing

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the issues an entrepreneur faces in the process of raising private funds, and the securities laws which impact the process. Based in part on a note by R.E. Floor of the law firm of Goodwin, Procter & Hoar. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Laws and Statutes; Private Equity; Financing and Loans
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  • 09 Jun 2015
  • News

Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au

10th Reunion, and Howard Stevenson responded.” Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, introduced Au to principals of a major hedge fund who... View Details
  • Awards

Entrepreneur for the World Award

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Received the 2010 Entrepreneur for the World Award from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in the Expert category. Stevenson was described by the Forum as the founder of entrepreneurship as an academic field and lauded for his pioneering research and course development... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

New Ventures, developed and taught by Professor Frank L. Tucker and doctoral candidate Patrick R. Liles (MBA '64, DBA '70). At about the same time, then Associate Professor... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • December 2007 (Revised June 2009)
  • Background Note

Identifying and Exploiting the Right Entrepreneurial Opportunity...For You

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley Spence
This note provides an analytical framework for assessing potential opportunities in the context of an entrepreneur's life. The framework has two parts -- a business analysis and a personal analysis -- each comprised of a set of yes/no questions for critical assessment... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Opportunities
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