Howard is an Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management and Management Education at Singapore Management University (SMU) where he was an LKCSB Distinguished Professor of Strategic Management, Mastercard Chair of Financial and Social Inclusion (2015-2018) and Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) (2009-2015).
He is a highly cited scholar, with fellowship awards from the U.S. Academy of Management (AOM), the British Academy of Management (BAM), the Academy of Social Sciences, UK, the Learned Society of Wales (LSW), the European Academy of Management (EURAM), the Institute of Directors (IOD) and the Strategic Management Society (SMS) for which he also served as Dean of Fellows and President of SMS. He was the Dean of Fellows at BAM. He was awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award by BAM in 2013 and the Cooper Leadership Medal by BAM in 2022.
He has also served as Chair of the Board of AACSB (UK), CABS (UK), GFME (Global Foundation for Management Education) and GMAC (USA) and is a past Vice-President (for Business Schools) and honorary life member of EFMD. He was given the Strategic Leadership Award from AACSB in 2014. His academic and administrative career has spanned at least three continents – Asia, Europe and North America. He has held visiting and permanent posts at AGSM (Australia); London Business School (LBS); Edinburgh University; Boston University; MIT; Kellogg School, Northwestern; University of Southern California (USA); HEC Montreal; University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver (Canada) and at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as well as GIBS, University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has held Deanships/senior administrative positions at LBS, AGSM, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.), Warwick Business School (WBS) and SMU. He is also the recipient of several honorary degrees.