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      • March 2016
      • Technical Note

      Business and the Building of Inclusive Institutions

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Tony He
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Tony He. "Business and the Building of Inclusive Institutions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 316-156, March 2016.
      • March 2016 (Revised December 2017)
      • Supplement

      Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (B)

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-hê Hsieh
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-hê Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 316-139, March 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
      • February 2016 (Revised February 2017)
      • Case

      Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy

      By: Rebecca Henderson and James Weber
      In 2005, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, launched a sustainability initiative aimed at reducing waste and making the company more environmentally and socially conscious. By 2015, the company had made progress on multiple dimensions: energy efficiency in its... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Reputation; Environmental Sustainability; Retail Industry; United States
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and James Weber. "Greening Walmart: Progress and Controversy." Harvard Business School Case 316-042, February 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
      • January 2016
      • Case

      German Business and the Syrian Refugee Crisis

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Tony He
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Tony He. "German Business and the Syrian Refugee Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 316-142, January 2016.
      • June 2015 (Revised February 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      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.)
      • Article

      Real Effects of Relational Contracts

      By: Steven Blader, Claudine Gartenberg, Rebecca Henderson and Andrea Pratt
      How important are factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors such... View Details
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      Blader, Steven, Claudine Gartenberg, Rebecca Henderson, and Andrea Pratt. "Real Effects of Relational Contracts." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 452–456.
      • Article

      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.
      • March 2015 (Revised August 2020)
      • Case

      Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Nien-he Hsieh
      In 2010, Human Rights Watch, a well-regarded international NGO, approached Barrick Gold asserting that members of the company’s security force at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea had on multiple occasions raped women who were trespassing onto the mine’s waste... View Details
      Keywords: Human Rights; Business And Society; Rights; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Nien-he Hsieh. "Putting the Guiding Principles into Action: Human Rights at Barrick Gold (A)." Harvard Business School Case 315-108, March 2015. (Revised August 2020.)
      • March 2015
      • Case

      Tough Choices at the Gomez Lobster Cooperative

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Amram Migdal
      This case is designed to be used with HBS Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century, HBS No. 315-074. View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Amram Migdal. "Tough Choices at the Gomez Lobster Cooperative." Harvard Business School Case 315-105, March 2015.
      • March 2015
      • Case

      Sustainable Palm Oil and Self-Regulation

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Amram Migdal
      This case is designed to be used with HBS Note: Industry Self-Regulation: Sustaining the Commons in the 21st Century, HBS No. 315-074. View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Amram Migdal. "Sustainable Palm Oil and Self-Regulation." Harvard Business School Case 315-100, March 2015.
      • February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
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      1worker1vote: MONDRAGON in the U.S.

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Michael Norris
      MONDRAGON, the largest cooperative in the world, and the inspiration for several U.S. cooperatives, faces a challenge in 2013 after one of its largest cooperatives votes to leave the group and another goes bankrupt. View Details
      Keywords: Cooperatives; Spain; United States; Manufacturing; Cooperative Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Spain; United States
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Michael Norris. "1worker1vote: MONDRAGON in the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 315-103, February 2015. (Revised December 2016.)
      • February 2015 (Revised September 2017)
      • Supplement

      Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (B)

      By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Shannon Gombos
      The case describes the decision of Omar Selim to set up Arabesque as an independent organization and how he organized Arabesque to use both financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in order to deliver performance for its clients. View Details
      Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investing; Investment Management; ESG; Sustainability; Investment Banking; Leadership; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Leadership Style; Business Model; Asset Management; Business Startups; Social Enterprise
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      Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and Shannon Gombos. "Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 115-035, February 2015. (Revised September 2017.)
      • February 2015
      • Case

      CLP: Powering Asia

      By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
      Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
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      Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and Dawn Lau. "CLP: Powering Asia." Harvard Business School Case 115-038, February 2015.
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability". Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability
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      Henderson, Rebecca. "Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-068, February 2015.
      • 2015
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna
      In a capitalist system based on free markets, do managers have responsibilities to the system itself? If they do, should these responsibilities shape their behavior when they engage in the political processes that structure the institutions of capitalism? The... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Lobbying; Leadership; Economic Systems; Managerial Roles; Business and Government Relations
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Karthik Ramanna. "Do Managers Have a Role to Play in Sustaining the Institutions of Capitalism?" Governance Studies, The Initiative on 21st Century Capitalism, No. 20, Brookings Institution, 2015.
      • 2015
      • Chapter

      Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?... View Details
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      Henderson, Rebecca. "Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability." Chap. 2 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman, 22–50. Oxford University Press, 2015.
      • January 2015
      • Technical Note

      Investor 'Short-Termism': Really A Shackle?

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Clayton Rose
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      Henderson, Rebecca, and Clayton Rose. "Investor 'Short-Termism': Really A Shackle?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 315-084, January 2015.
      • January 2015 (Revised September 2017)
      • Case

      Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)

      By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Shannon Gombos
      The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to integrated Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions. At Barclays Capital, Omar Selim... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainability; ESG; Social Business; Entrepreneurs; Scaling; Emerging Market Entrepreneurship; Not For Profit; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mentoring; Business Networks; Hybrid Nonprofit Funding; Investing; Investment Management; Asset Management; Values and Beliefs; Religion; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Germany; United Kingdom
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      Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and Shannon Gombos. "Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)." Harvard Business School Case 115-021, January 2015. (Revised September 2017.)
      • January 2015 (Revised January 2018)
      • Technical Note

      Note on Comparative Capitalism

      By: Clayton S. Rose and Rebecca Henderson
      This note draws on academic work, as well as social and economic data across several countries, to provide a basic understanding of some of the differences among capitalist systems. It begins with a description of the system of capitalism, and characteristics that to a... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Global; Economic Systems; Global Range; Japan; Germany; China; United States; Sweden
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      Rose, Clayton S., and Rebecca Henderson. "Note on Comparative Capitalism." Harvard Business School Technical Note 315-077, January 2015. (Revised January 2018.)
      • January 2015
      • Case

      Chevron Under Fire

      By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Christine Snively
      Oil giant, Chevron, faced numerous challenges on environmental, social and governance (ESG) grounds in the first decade of the 21st century, including some major lawsuits and actions by NGOs. The case describes those challenges and raises questions about what is the... View Details
      Keywords: Carbon Tax; Oil And Gas; Environment; Drilling; Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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      Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and Christine Snively. "Chevron Under Fire." Harvard Business School Case 115-031, January 2015.
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