Howard H. Stevenson

HOWARD STEVENSON is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he is known as the “lion of entrepreneurship” and held key leadership positions including Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. He also served as Vice Provost for Harvard University Resources and Planning and Senior Associate Provost. An entrepreneur himself, Howard was a founder and the first president of the Baupost Group, Inc., a wealth management firm that now invests $29 billion for its clients. He remains involved in the investment world, working with his son to manage investments for the Stevenson family and others. Howard also has been a director or trustee of over 20 organizations, and is an active philanthropist. Howard has authored 13 books including The Entrepreneurial Venture; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life; Getting to Giving: Fundraising the Entrepreneurial Way; and Wealth and Families: Lessons from my Life Journey.