Harriet Stephenson: All Business From Day One

For Albers' 75th year, Dean Joe Phillips sat down with the iconic
Harriet Stephenson, a business professor who taught at Albers
from 1967 to 2014. Stephenson, one of the few female business
PhDs in her time, founded what is now the Innovation &
Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) and won many awards for her
teaching and her work in social entrepreneurship and small
business management.


Phillips asked her how she first got interested in business
(leasing her grandfather's swimming pool in Walla Walla), what it
was like to be a woman in business in the 60s ("business was
pretty much men"), and the origins of Albers' triple bottom line,
among others. When asked how she felt about the IEC naming their
business competition after her, Stephenson said with much
satisfaction, "I gotta say I like it."


If you studied under Harriet or are just interested in the woman
after whom our business plan competition is named, listen to
understand why she's a living legend.


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