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  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
  • Summer 2020
  • Book Review

Big Structural Change: Review of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, by Rebecca Henderson

By: Mark R. Kramer
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

percent of global output) by 2095. Moreover delaying action could increase mitigation costs by 40 percent every decade, making it ever more difficult to do what may need to be done. OP-ED COLLECTION The... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Apr 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managers and Market Capitalism

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson & Karthik Ramanna
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

Keywords: by Susan Helper & Rebecca Henderson; Auto
  • 18 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

Keywords: by Timothy Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein & Rebecca Henderson
  • 24 Feb 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Energy; Utilities; Technology
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

Keywords: by Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca M. Henderson
  • 14 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details
Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

Keywords: by Hazhir Rahmandad, Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca Henderson
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

Keywords: by R. Gibbons & R. Henderson
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • January 2014 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Henry Schein: Doing Well by Doing Good?

By: Rebecca Henderson, Raffaella Sadun, Aldo Sesia and Russell Eisenstat

Henry Schein Inc., a distributor of supplies to dentist, physician, and veterinary practices, had sales approaching $9 billion and employed nearly 16,000 people. The company had experienced impressive growth under the leadership of Stanley Bergman and his executive... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Strategy Execution; Performance Management; Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Joint Ventures; Partnerships; Health Care Industry; Healthcare Logistics Industry; Competitive Advantage; Strategy; Leadership; Global Strategy; Selection and Staffing; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; China; Europe; United States
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  • Article

Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Patents; Geography
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  • 2009
  • Journal Article

Evaluating Dedicated and Intrinsic Models of Temporal Encoding by Varying Context

By: Rebecca M.C. Spencer, Uma Karmarkar and Richard B. Ivry
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  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • 07 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

Walk into any local coffee shop, and you might see people using Amazon Kindles—but you’re not likely to spot anyone with a Sony Librie, even though Sony was the first company to make an e-reader in 2004. “It was probably a better product,” says View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

Keywords: Re: Rebecca M. Henderson & George Serafeim; Financial Services

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