An honorary doctorate is a doctorate awarded without the person having defended a dissertation. Most often they are given to highly prominent and foreign academics.
Honorary doctorate degrees can be given as recognition of vital life work, even though it is not within a doctoral degree.

The Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School
Professor Teresa Amabile

Stanford University
Professor Nicholas Bloom

Professor emeritus UCLA Anderson School of Management
Professor Michael J. Brennan

Former prime minister of Norway and Director General of WHO
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Harvard University
Professor John Y. Campbell

Former U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Stanford University
Professor Kathleen Eisenhardt

The Football Association of Norway
Lise Klaveness

Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida
Professor W. Robert Knechel

Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Professor Ajay Kohli

S. C. Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Professor Philip Kotler

Haas School of Business & Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Trond Petersen

London School of Economics
Professor Cristopher A. Pissarides

Harvard Business School
Professor Michael E. Porter

Smeal College of Business, Penn State University
Professor Emeritus Charles Snow

Harvard Law School
Professor Kathryn E. Spier

Columbia University
Professor Joseph Eugene Stiglitz

Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill