Professor Howard Stevenson - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2024
What Do You Think?

Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?

A boomerang CEO typically can be reinstalled quickly and can hit the ground running, providing a timely solution to a problem. The CEO is a known entity to members of the board of directors who have to make the decision. They cite high-profile successful examples, such... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

promising area, XTV recruited Howard Shao and John Newton, both former engineering executives at the Ingress Corporation (a relational database manufacturer), to lead the technical effort. Shao spent the first six months assessing the... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

we have rebels like Tupac Shakur, Howard Stern, and Dennis Rodman. The problem with both the breadwinner and rebel models is that each has an undesirable underbelly, a stigma that ultimately makes the model less than ideal. Even the most... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Howard H. Stevenson Marco E. Tabellini Jo Tango David A. Thomas Monique Burns Thompson Emily Truelove Martin Wattenberg Andy Wu David B. Yoffie Gerald Zaltman Shunyuan Zhang Livia Alfonsi Bharat N. Anand... View Details

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

founders (All welcome) Pre-Summit Programming Ends HBS Entrepreneurship Summit DAY 1 1:30 p.m. Registration Opens 2:15–2:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), Director, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Thomas R. Eisenmann (MBA 1983, DBA 1998), View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

A conversation with Nancy Koehn, author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust From Wedgwood to Dell, HBS Press, 2001. "I am just fascinated by the power, the quirks, the determination, and the durability of individuals," asserts HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
News

Pet Project

that demand payment for product placement and by wholesalers who are slow to pay. If Katie pursues this direction, she needs senior team members with the experience to navigate this challenging path and investors who can offer good guidance. —Tom Eisenmann is the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

Taylor, and many others at the hands of police and the Covid-19 pandemic, professors and classmates have also helped strengthen my resolve to use my voice now to advocate for change and to support these organizations. For companies making... View Details

18 Dec 2014
Blog Post

Turnaround & Restructuring Club Conference Recap

moderated by HBS Professor Kristin Mugford. Mr. Toy spoke in detail about his vast turnaround experiences and when asked about current trends stated, “Currently the market is doing pretty well, so there’s not as much restructuring needed.... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

"having more richness to it than other relationships."' And Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz illustrated the importance of the partnership to Starbucks when he said: "We have to weigh what's affordable against what... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

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

09 Feb 2021
News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

honor of Peter O. Crisp. Thomas R. Eisenmann, the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration, who was recently appointed faculty chair, will be the first to hold... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

October 1983 (Revised April 2006)
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A Perspective on Entrepreneurship

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship can be fostered or destroyed as a function of the administrative setting. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Management Style

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

from Harvard Business School and a BS from Kansas State University. He and his wife, Sandra, reside in Brookline with their four children. Thomas Eisenmann (MBA 1983), Harvard Business School. Thomas Eisenmann is the Howard H. View Details

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

system. Robert Adams considered that the PARC document-management solutions offered pivotal know-how that could open doors for Xerox's high-end networked laser printers, while producing an outstanding business opportunity. Adams invited View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Golden Age of Black Business

his family's insurance company, one of the largest African American owned businesses in Atlanta. H. Naylor Fitzhugh served as an influential professor at Howard University and assumed a senior executive... View Details

01 Aug 2008
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Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The more one is able to ask 'what if'... View Details

Keywords: by Jim 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. Stevenson Professor of Business... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Applegate William A. Sahlman Thomas R. Eisenmann Geoffrey G. Jones Myra M. Hart Rosabeth M. Kanter Joseph B. Lassiter Howard H. Stevenson Josh Lerner Paul A. Gompers Richard G. Hamermesh See All HBS Working... View Details

16 Oct 2023
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Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

qualifications, while expanding new apprenticeship and professional development programs. Now, three years later, Delta is making progress toward hiring and developing more Black talent, with and without college degrees, says Linda Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

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