Howard - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2012
News

5 Key Questions to Gauge the Culture in Your Startup

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

Keywords: by Staff

02 Dec 2011
News

To Sell More, Answer These Questions

06 Jun 2017
News

Economy can't grow without people filling the jobs: Pro

08 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

The gold-lettered Donor Wall of Fame is a cornerstone of philanthropy. To entice donations, fundraisers will also deploy competitions, hierarchies of giving, and naming rights to new buildings and even to entire schools. But after years of fundraising—and being asked... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

18 Oct 2016
News

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

05 Dec 2012
News

Why there is no such thing as work-life balance

04 May 2016
News

Every Company Is a Health Company

01 Dec 2012
News

Grande Visions

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 Stevenson of Harvard Business School suggest a definition of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jan 2019
News

I don't think Biden and Schultz want to run against each other

October 2008
Supplement

John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Shirley M. Spence

Video of an interview conducted by Professor Howard Stevenson with John and Andrea Rice. It presents their views on their notions of career success, finding happiness in life, managing their competitiveness, their goals for the next ten years, and the pursuit of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Success; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Happiness; Competitive Strategy

Citation

Purchase

01 Jan 2003
News

18 Mar 2016
News

Apple CEO’s gay rights activism ‘helps boost iPhone sales’

31 Jul 2019
Video

Instagram Takeover - Kyle Hutton

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

August 2015
Supplement

Sustainability at IKEA Group: Video Supplement

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Michael W. Toffel

This video contains Q&A with IKEA Group's Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Howard and IKEA Group's Industrial Strategy Manager Per Berggren, the two primary case protagonists. They respond to student questions after the case was taught at an executive education class... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry