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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 31 Dec 2010
- News
Entrepreneur for the World Award
- 31 Mar 2020
- News
How To Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
concept, which we developed with our colleagues Howard Raiffa and Michael Wheeler, the "No-Fist" alternative, an acronym for Normal Operations with a Financial Strike. Here's how it would work: Once the deadline is imminent and... View Details
- Research Summary
Entrepreneurial Management
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
- 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
Weiss, Mitchell, and Benjamin Henkes. "An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Background Note 820-083, December 2019.
- 28 Jun 2012
- News
Davos on the river Neva
- 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
- 07 Jan 2013
- News
Sharing what's at the heart of career success
- 23 Mar 2011
- News
Don't Melt Down
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
grasp those few "inflection points" that present themselves to change our lives—if we recognize the opportunity. Howard Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business... View Details
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- Research Summary
Enduring Success
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
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
In 2000, The Entrepreneurial Manager was introduced into the required first-year MBA curriculum. The course—and its presence in the first year—marked an important milestone in the evolution of teaching entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. New Business recently... View Details
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Thomas R. Eisenmann
Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details
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- Awards
Entrepreneur for the World Award
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
- 04 May 2016
- News
Every Company Is a Health Company
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
Harvard Business School Professor and historian Nancy Koehn has studied Starbucks and its leader, Howard Schultz, for close to 20 years. For her, the company represents much more than a phenomenal success... View Details
- 18 Mar 2016
- News