{{Short description|American academic (b. 1941)}} {{Promotional|date=April 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} alt=|thumb|Howard Stevenson ({{circa|2012}}) '''Howard H. Stevenson''' (June 27, 1941) is the Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He began teaching entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School in 1982 and held a variety of academic and leadership positions at HBS and Harvard University until his retirement in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Howard H. Stevenson - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School |url=https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6560 |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=www.hbs.edu |language=en}}</ref>
thumb|Howard H. Stevenson at Harvard Business School ''Forbes'' described Howard as Harvard Business School's "lion of entrepreneurship" in a 2011 article.<ref name="Forbes">{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2011/06/15/harvards-lion-of-entrepreneurship-packs-up-his-office/|title=Harvard's Lion of Entrepreneurship Packs Up His Office|first=Peter|last=Cohan|website=Forbes|accessdate=October 21, 2024}}</ref> He is credited with defining entrepreneurship as "the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control."<ref name="Forbes" /> ''INC'' described Howard's definition of entrepreneurship as "the best answer ever."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.inc.com/eric-schurenberg/the-best-definition-of-entepreneurship.html/|title=The Best Definition Of Entrepreneurship|accessdate=October 21, 2024}}</ref>
Stevenson is the author of eight books and 41 articles.<ref name="Harvard">{{Cite web |url=http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/05.06/03-stevenson.html |title=www.news.harvard.edu |access-date=June 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052217/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/05.06/03-stevenson.html |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His past roles at Harvard include chairman of Harvard Business Publishing, vice provost for resources and planning, and senior associate dean at HBS.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=hstevenson/|title=Howard H. Stevenson - Faculty - Harvard Business School|date=December 15, 2012|website=archive.ph|accessdate=October 21, 2024|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121215005216/http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=hstevenson/|archive-date=2012-12-15}}</ref> He is often credited as being the most successful fundraiser in the history of Harvard University, raising over $600 million in philanthropic support for initiatives in business, science, healthcare, and student life.<ref name="Harvard" />
Stevenson is the co-founder and founding president of Baupost Group, a money management firm currently led by Seth Klarman. When he retired from active teaching at HBS, the university named an academic chair in his honor.thumb|Howard H. Stevenson and Eric Sinoway on the HBS CampusHe graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Business School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks?blocklist=19900421|title=Stocks|date=October 21, 2024|website=Bloomberg.com|accessdate=October 21, 2024}}</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category-inline}} *[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.EAD:bak00031 Howard H. Stevenson papers] at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School
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