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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Action Plan: The Power of Story
As a guy who makes his living getting—and keeping—people’s attention, Charles Henderson (MBA 1991) appreciates the value of a memorable tagline. He knows that his is more compelling than most. “I call it my ‘heroin-to-Harvard’ story,” he... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 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
- 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
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
of the day, you leave with my best wishes. But I need one day, and I need you guys to just open up your mind and your heart to what I have to say, and that’s all.’” The management team stayed, and Henderson managed to break through View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship
GOLDBERG: Bringing a passion for education to the MBA classroom. For the third year in a row, the MBA graduating class has established a fellowship that will benefit future HBS students. The Class of 2006 broke fundraising and participation records View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 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.
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Colors of the Masters Tools: Race as Symbolic Capital Rebecca Henderson , Harvard Business School Throw it Out or Rebuild? Exploring the Possibility of a Just & Regenerative Capitalism Panel: Gender Danya... View Details
- December 2018 (Revised March 2020)
- Technical Note
Note on Economic Inequality (2020)
By: Rebecca Henderson, Jessica A. Gover, Aldo Sesia and Mariana Oseguera Rodriguez
For over half a century, most of the world's economies have enjoyed steady growth and prosperity. While this economic growth has reduced the number of people living in poverty, it has come with an increase in economic inequality. The gap between the "haves" and the... View Details