Howard - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2017
News

John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

differences in status,” notes Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, whom McArthur recruited to develop the School’s entrepreneurship program. “You simply cannot survive as Dean unless you keep the faculty engaged in something that is... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

February 1974
Journal Article

Natural Selection of Life History Attibutes: An Analytical Approach

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Howard M. Taylor, Robert Gourley and Charles Lawrence

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01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: Frozen Assets

As one of Howard Schultz’s first hires at Starbucks, she spent 20 years revolutionizing the coffee marketplace, eventually running its Asia-Pacific division. At Lululemon, she helped the yoga brand become a $10 billion–plus business by... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

John Brown from Harvard Divinity School, and Howard Koh from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, aimed to ignite conversations and an investigation into the deeper motivations of business leaders—the development of their values... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Complex Number Calculator is demonstrated by George Stiblitz 1941 A. Philip Randolph threatens march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in defense jobs 1942 Enrico Fermi's University of Chicago team produces the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear... View Details

Profile

Luc Sirois

new era,” he says. Sirois credits former professors Jeffrey F. Rayport (Managing in Cyberspace) and Howard H. Stevenson (Entrepreneurial Finance) with jump-starting his thinking. “It was like an epiphany,” he says. “There were lessons on... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

07 Aug 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

neighborhoods, right as they’re experiencing the problem? Do it! Pre-HBS, I worked for 5 years at a company called Blue State Digital, a communications agency born out of the Howard Dean and Barack Obama presidential campaigns. Blue State... View Details

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

Howard University, Florida A&M University, Spelman College, and Morehouse College. Additionally, in an ongoing effort to support BIPOC students in overcoming the barriers encountered in gaining entry to the fashion industry, ARF... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

Kerr: There’s a lot of alignment between general management and entrepreneurial management. We define entrepreneurship following the early work of Howard Stevenson at HBS as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.” What... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

business, she said. Koehn focused on the subject of women entrepreneurs, citing HBS professor Howard Stevenson's definition of entrepreneurship as the "relentless pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently controlled."... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Feb 1997
News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

emeritus and HBS professor emeritus Howard Raiffa, as well as Sebenius - strive to shift the process of conflict negotiation toward mutually beneficial and sustainable agreements. "We're really trying to help people better understand... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

the role that performance management systems play in improving health care value, enhancing health equity, and reducing workplace burnout. Robert Huckman is Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration, the Howard Cox... View Details

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

Keywords: David Lax and Professor James K. Sebenius

23 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books

Habit If you are ready to make a change, but you are left wondering how to make those changes stick, then let Charles Duhigg help you along that path with The Power of Habit. Profiles of Michael Phelps, Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

advisory boards. One is the Latin American Faculty Advisory Group, composed of ten HBS faculty members and led by Professor Howard Stevenson. This group provides us with guidance regarding the LARC's research agenda and assists us in our... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

recollection of how Howard revolutionized the field of negotiation and how those insights are now affecting broader areas of the social science. Raiffa received the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 2008 (Revised September 2009)
Case

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (A)

By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Hung-Chang Chiu, Yi-Ching Hsieh and Ho Howard Yu

ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of PC motherboards, yet when it tried to launch its new sub-notebook Eee PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Groups and Teams; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry