2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/45727We review various effective potential methods which have been useful to compute the Higgs mass spectrum and couplings of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We compare results where all-loop next-to-leading-log corrections are resummed by the renormalization group, with those where just the leading-log corrections are kept. Pole masses are obtained from running masses by addition of convenient self-energy diagrams. Approximate analytical expressions are worked out, providing an excellent approximation to the numerical results which include all next-to-leading-log terms. An appropriate treatment of squark decoupling allows to consider large values of the stop and/or sbottom mixing parameters and thus fix a reliable upper bound on the mass of the lightest CP-even Higgs boson mass.10 pages, latex + psfig.sty, 6 figures uuencoded. Based on talk given at the SUSY-95 International Workshop on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions, 15-19 May 1995High Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext