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- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Florida’s Punishment of Disney World
- 28 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in the Shadow of the Pandemic
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) It was the “opportunity to be part of something bigger than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of the twentieth century.” Kiechel sees Henderson as a man “obsessed with figuring out how the world works” and “how one company achieves an advantage over others.” Cantankerous and often difficult to work with, fired View Details
- 2013
- Book
Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability
By: Rebecca Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman
Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and... View Details
Henn, Rebecca, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability. MIT Press, 2013. (Honorable Mention for the 2014 Best Book Award, Organizations and Natural Environment Division, Academy of Management.)
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
past year by BEI to explore the role of business leaders in the age of climate change. The event featured a keynote address by Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
format). We ended up raising over $20K for the Boston Resiliency Fund and the show has become an annual tradition! For this year’s event, since I was the only member of the founding team yet to graduate, I led the charge with co-Chair extraordinaire View Details
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Technical Note
Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage
This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that some firms outperform their competition because they can do things that their rivals cannot. View Details
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Technical Note 313-105, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- Research Summary
Overview
My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational... View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Technological Change and The Management of Architectural Knowledge
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Technological Change and The Management of Architectural Knowledge." In Transforming Organizations, edited by Thomas Kochan and Michael Useem. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (Reprinted in Organizational Learning, edited by Michael D. Cohen and Lee S. Sproull, Calif.: Sage Publications Inc., 1996.)
- 1996
- Chapter
Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in Photolighographic Alignment Equipment
Keywords: Technology Industry
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in Photolighographic Alignment Equipment." In Managing Product Development, edited by T. Nishiguchi. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Winner of Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research presented by Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.)
- January–February 1994
- Article
Managing Innovation in the Information Age
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Managing Innovation in the Information Age." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 1 (January–February 1994): 100–106.
- January 2006
- Article
The Innovator's Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence
Henderson, Rebecca M. "The Innovator's Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence." Journal of Product Innovation Management 23 (January 2006): 5–11.
- 1997
- Chapter
On the Dynamics of Forecasting in Technologically Complex Environments: The Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical Lithography
Keywords: History; Information Technology; Situation or Environment; Complexity; Forecasting and Prediction; Technology Industry
Henderson, Rebecca M. "On the Dynamics of Forecasting in Technologically Complex Environments: The Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical Lithography." In Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights, edited by Raghu Garud, Praveen Rattan Nayyar, and Zur Baruch Shapira. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- 2000
- Chapter
'Luck', 'Leadership' and 'Strategy'
Henderson, Rebecca M. "'Luck', 'Leadership' and 'Strategy'." In Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management. Vol. 17, edited by J. A. C. Baum and Frank Dobbin, 285–289. Advances in Strategic Management. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 2000.
- July – August 2000
- Article
Drug Industry Mergers Won't Necessarily Benefit R&D
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Drug Industry Mergers Won't Necessarily Benefit R&D." Research-Technology Management 43, no. 4 (July–August 2000): 10–11.
- 1994
- Article
The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery
Henderson, Rebecca M. "The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery." Industrial and Corporate Change 3, no. 3 (1994): 607–630.
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
the consumer. Professor Forest Reinhardt explains how a big, sophisticated company used small details, from trucking routes to the color of refrigerators, to put its commitment to the environment to work on its behalf. Wal-Mart: Changing the World for Better or... View Details
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