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  • April 2003 (Revised July 2003)
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Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen

By: Rebecca Henderson and Nancy Confrey
Pending developments in wireless networking and in embedded computing present a long-range strategic challenge to Nokia, Inc. This case outlines the ways technology is likely to develop in the next 20 years, briefly describes Nokia's history and strategic positioning,... View Details
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Henderson, Rebecca, and Nancy Confrey. "Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen." Harvard Business School Case 703-450, July 2003. (Revised from original April 2003 version.)
  • April 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Kodak (A)

By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Leadership; Disruption; Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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Gavetti, Giovanni M., Rebecca Henderson, and Simona Giorgi. "Kodak (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-503, April 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
  • 25 Jan 2011
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grow and become successful, they are often marked by the negative stigma associated with size and power, which elicits anticorporate sentiment from consumers. An underdog brand biography can be strategically wielded to prevent or offset... View Details
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  • June 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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Nestlé SA: Nutrition, Health and Wellness Strategy

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson
In 1997 Nestlé committed to a strategic vision of becoming the leading nutrition, health and wellness (NHW) company in the world. Over the next 13 years, the NHW strategy guided strategic decisions and choices at Nestlé including merger and acquisition choices,... View Details
Keywords: Nutrition; Health; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Nestlé SA: Nutrition, Health and Wellness Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 311-119, June 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
  • fall 2000
  • Article

Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ajay Agrawal
Keywords: Patents; Knowledge Sharing
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ajay Agrawal. "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT." Economic Institutions of Strategy 21 (fall 2000): 1123–1145. (Reprinted in Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 26, Economic Institutions of Strategy," edited by J. Nickerson and B. Silverman, 2009.)
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Inertia and Incentives: Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Competence

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Sarah Kaplan
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Economics; Competency and Skills
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Sarah Kaplan. "Inertia and Incentives: Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Competence." Organization Science 16, no. 5 (September–October 2005): 509–521.
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Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Intel

By: Annabelle Gawer and Rebecca M. Henderson
Keywords: Ownership; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Technology; Computer Industry
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Gawer, Annabelle, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Intel." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 16, no. 1 (Spring 2007).
  • January 2012
  • Teaching Note

Best Practice in Consumer Packaged Goods Management

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Best Practice in Consumer Packaged Goods Management ." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 312-062, January 2012.
  • 2000
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Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Measurement and Metrics; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery." Chap. 6 in The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities, edited by Giovanni Dosi, Richard Nelson, and Sidney Winter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • fall 1994
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Racing to Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ian Cockburn
Keywords: Investment; Competition; Ethics; Health
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ian Cockburn. "Racing to Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 3, no. 3 (fall 1994): 481–519.
  • January 2002
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Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT

By: Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca M. Henderson
Keywords: Patents; Knowledge Sharing
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Agrawal, Ajay, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT." Management Science 48, no. 1 (January 2002): 44–60.
  • 2012
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What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

By: Rebecca Henderson and Robert Gibbons
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity
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Henderson, Rebecca, and Robert Gibbons. "What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises." Chap. 17 in Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John Roberts, 680–731. Princeton University Press, 2012.
  • April 2017
  • Teaching Plan

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and David Freiberg
Teaching Note for HBS No. 115-038. View Details
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Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and David Freiberg. "CLP: Powering Asia." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 117-053, April 2017.
  • June 2015 (Revised February 2017)
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Shanghai: GDP Apostasy

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and David Freiberg
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Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and David Freiberg. "Shanghai: GDP Apostasy." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 115-065, June 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
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Why Do Firms Have 'Purpose'? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity and Reputation

By: Rebecca Henderson and Eric Van den Steen
Why do so many firms publicly espouse a "purpose" beyond simple profit maximization? And why do so many managers and employees appear to care deeply about this purpose and to believe that it is critically important? In this paper we argue that the conventional answers... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Identity; Reputation
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Henderson, Rebecca, and Eric Van den Steen. "Why Do Firms Have 'Purpose'? The Firm's Role as a Carrier of Identity and Reputation." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 326–330.
  • 2022
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A Political Economy of Justice

By: Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson and Joshua Simons
Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time.
If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and people... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Social Justice; Capitalism; Business And Society; Economy; Society; Fairness; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
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Allen, Danielle, Yochai Benkler, Leah Downey, Rebecca Henderson, and Joshua Simons, eds. A Political Economy of Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Nelson P. Repenning and Rebecca Henderson
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Improvement; Competitive Advantage; Earnings Management; Management Practices and Processes; Revenue; Quality; Competency and Skills; Motivation and Incentives; Auto Industry; United States
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Repenning, Nelson P., and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-033, September 2010.
  • 1999
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The Economics of Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Keywords: Economics; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "The Economics of Drug Discovery." Chap. 5 in Pharmaceutical Innovation, edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis, and Alexander Scriabine, 308–331. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Press, 1999.
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Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Keywords: Behavior; Research and Development; Organizations; Health
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Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery." Journal of Industrial Economics 46, no. 2 (June 1998): 157–182.
  • March 2018
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Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Rebecca Henderson and Nelson P. Repenning
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Capability; Short-termism; System Dynamics; Tipping Point; Business or Company Management; Earnings Management; Resource Allocation
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Rahmandad, Hazhir, Rebecca Henderson, and Nelson P. Repenning. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Management Science 64, no. 3 (March 2018): 1328–1347.
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