Publications

January 1988 (Revised May 1992)
Case

Howard Head and Prince Manufacturing, Inc.

Deals with the issue of an entrepreneur in a very successful company deciding whether to stay through a period of great growth or to sell. What are the entrepreneur's responsibilities to the organization, to his employees, to the public? As subtopics, the issues of... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Patents; Law; Markets; Production; Sales

Educators

August 1988
Supplement

Howard Head and Prince Manufacturing, Inc., Video

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

June 1988 (Revised March 1989)
Teaching Note

Howard Head and Prince Manufacturing, Inc., Teaching Note

Teaching Note for (9-388-079). View Details

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

of us to navigate the coronavirus crisis by conveying to employees, colleagues, friends, and family that “I’m here for you.” About the Authors Howard Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

April 2016 at Harvard University. Dr. Howard K. Koh is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

Think of Rupert Murdoch, Al "Chainsaw" Dunlop, and Madonna. They're talented. They're shrewd. Now, are they successful? Or, as HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

During the last 15 years, entrepreneurship has developed from a marginal, struggling field of inquiry to a dynamic centerpiece of many business schools. As the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

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

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

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

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Managers; Entrepreneurship

Educators