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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
Industry Overcome Public Distrust? This article is part of a research series following up on issues and stories presented in Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, by Russ Banham,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
Social Problems Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty This article is part of a research series following up on issues and stories presented in Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, 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 View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
likely to hear, "That's not my job," in a company where responsibility is not only accepted by individuals but also shared and delegated. Solid teamwork also becomes critical. In this more complex... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the Harvard framework (Figure 11.1), which was developed by William Sahlman 1 and Howard Stevenson 2 is described in Chapter 12. Good judgement... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
"Success has always been an American preoccupation, but the definition of success takes on a new urgency today, when every conventional measure of success seems to have a faster burn rate than ever before," say Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management
among lenders, investors, suppliers, employees, and so on. Recently this perspective has again been confirmed by Amar Bhidé's systematic study of the "bootstrap" entrepreneur. Schumpeter himself... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
Every bet—large or small, corporate or personal—puts you into a game. And whatever the game, at some point your participation ends. Sometimes it ends because the game is over for all the players, sometimes because your participation is... View Details
- 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
Stevenson, Howard H., and Shirley M. Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 509-715, October 2008.
- 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
- 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
- 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 since 1982, View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
grasp those few "inflection points" that present themselves to change our lives—if we recognize the opportunity. Howard Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration. Slingshot Round the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 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
Weiss, Mitchell, and Benjamin Henkes. "An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Background Note 820-083, December 2019.
- 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 View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
that it’s easier for most people to make money than it is to give it away,” Stevenson recently told an audience at a Books@Baker event sponsored by Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Many people don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Research Summary
MBAX2
Research in progress. A study of HBS's dual MBA couples and their family and work decisions. This research continues the observations about the critical dimensions of lasting success identified by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson in their book, Just Enough: Tools for... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life
By: Howard H. Stevenson, Janet Kraus and Shirley Spence
The case follows the professional and personal lives of John and Andrea Rice, illustrating the challenge of "juggling" the multiple aspects of life (career, family, community, self) in the pursuit of a personal vision of success. Particular attention is paid to the... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Nonprofit Organizations
Stevenson, Howard H., Janet Kraus, and Shirley Spence. "John and Andrea Rice: Entrepreneurship and Life." Harvard Business School Case 808-042, December 2007. (Revised February 2012.)
- Research Summary
Enduring Success
Harvard Business School graduates have achieved many different kinds of success as leaders of businesses, as entrepreneurs and in their public and private lives. After authoring or co-authoring 150 cases, serving on many corporate and non- profit boards, Howard... View Details