Professor Howard H. Stevenson is The Center for Entrepreneurial Thinking’s Chairman and the inspiration behind it’s creation.
Regarded as “the father of entrepreneurship”–Professor Stevenson coined what Inc. Magazine described as “the best definition of an entrepreneur ever”–Howard is an iconic Harvard Business School figure, a scholar of the first rate, a highly accomplished entrepreneur, a leading philanthropist, and a husband, father, and grandfather.
The author of 200 books, cases, and articles during a 40-year career at Harvard Business School, Professor Stevenson is credited with helping to shape the concept of entrepreneurship itself and to teaching over 40,000 MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education students.
Howard is the founding President of Baupost, a $30 billion money management firm; the former Chairman of National Public Radio (NPR); the former Chairman of Harvard Business Publishing; and the former Vice Provost of Harvard University.