Howard - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Aug 2023
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Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

Can you tell us about your background, including your pre-MBA industry and role? I am a joint degree MBA/MPP (Masters in Public Policy) candidate at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. I graduated summa cum laude from View Details

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

Campaign and the Upside of CEO Activism By: Chatterji, Aaron, and Michael Toffel Abstract—When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz asked his baristas to engage customers in a discussion about race in America, it was a clear case of the growing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

Arthur Rock & Company, which was instrumental in the birth of Apple and Intel. Unlike many venture funders, Rock’s formula for success relies on maintaining long-term ties with the companies he finances, often staying on company boards for decades. HBS Professor... View Details

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

acknowledge it Ruth Reader 16 Jan 2019 | Fast Company The Caring Company Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman 16 Jan 2019 | American Enterprise Institute Employers Are Clueless When It Comes To Family Caregiving Howard Gleckman 16 Jan 2019 |... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Product–Market Fit in the Age of AI . Damn Gravity Media, 2025. More Publications Faculty William R. Kerr Lynda M. Applegate William A. Sahlman Thomas R. Eisenmann Geoffrey G. Jones Myra M. Hart Rosabeth M. Kanter Joseph B. Lassiter View Details

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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 position at the Pepsi–Cola Company.... View Details

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For Alumni - Health Care

and Harvard Kennedy School. Moderated by Robert Huckman, Howard Cox Health Care Initiative, Faculty Chair Jan 31 31 Jan 2025 Blavatnik Fellowship Applications Deadline (Applications opened on January 6) HBS Health Care Initiative Are you... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

experienced burnout differently. Organizations currently comprise multiple generations of employees simultaneously and must understand how each group may view any incentives companies provide to encourage people to stay at an organization. In June, Business Insider... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

26 Jun 2013
News

How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

of designing and launching the TV Game was $50,000; revenues were $7.3 million. All this and more is detailed in a 1985 HBS case study, "R&R"—the name of Reiss's company—which was supervised by Professor Howard Stevenson (and prepared by... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

24 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

support of founder Howard Schultz and his team in Philadelphia. Zuckerberg did not seem to rely upon the wisdom of Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg or lead board director Susan Desmond-Hellmann. Instead, he trotted out his deputy... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage

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The Caring Company

refuse to acknowledge it Ruth Reader 16 Jan 2019 | Fast Company The Caring Company Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman 16 Jan 2019 | American Enterprise Institute Employers Are Clueless When It Comes To Family Caregiving Howard Gleckman 16 Jan... View Details

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

entire enterprises. The courage cohort includes Delta’s Richard Anderson, Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, Xerox’s Anne Mulcahy and Ursula Burns, Nestle’s Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Novartis’ Dan Vasella, Tesla’s Elon Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

Courtesy Howard Cox Courtesy Howard Cox This past fall, 49 employees of the US Department of State logged in to a virtual HBS classroom from all over the world—Honduras, China, Namibia, and Kazakhstan, to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

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HBR Classics - Alumni

in Decision Making , John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Riaffa Who Has the D , Paul Rogers and Marcia Blenko Ethical Leadership Ethical Leadership and the Dual Roles of Examples Ethical Leadership and the Psychology of... View Details

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

isolating at home, the remaining workers asked for KN95 masks, better testing protocols, and the right to turn away illegally unmasked customers. These requests were flatly refused—a surprising response from a company whose founder, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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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

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

1959 Howard W. Goldsmith Fellowship Through the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship, awards of approximately $10,000 are given to 7-10 first-year MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the... View Details

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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. Stevenson... View Details

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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