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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
who are examining a wide range of climate- and sustainability-related topics. Contributing to this body of knowledge will be the work generated by the BiGS Climate Fellows, who will collaborate with the BEI next year. Additionally, BiGS... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Apr 2021
- News
Confronting Climate Change
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Bolster Climate Change
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors
By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
Helper, Susan, and Rebecca Henderson. "Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-062, January 2014. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19867, January 2014.)
- August 2003
- Case
Mercury Computer Systems: The Evolution from Integrated Technology to Open Standard
By: Rebecca Henderson and Nancy Confrey
For 20 years, Mercury Computer Systems has thrived, providing products and services that support ultrafast processing of real time data. Now Jay Bertelli, the CEO, faces a critical question: How can the firm compete once the standards on which its products are based... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Open Source Distribution; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Nancy Confrey. "Mercury Computer Systems: The Evolution from Integrated Technology to Open Standard." Harvard Business School Case 704-424, August 2003.
- 04 Oct 2024
- News
On the Vineyard, Black Alumni Reconnect With Friends and HBS
The summer weather could not have been better on August 9, when 180 HBS alumni and guests converged on Martha’s Vineyard for “HBS on the Vineyard: A Summer Reception,” an event co-hosted by HBS External Relations and the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school, and college at Smith College in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?
- 02 Oct 2020
- News
Building a Just and Climate-Ready Economy in a Post-COVID World
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
concerns can save lives, which directly aligns with healthcare professionals’ collective goals and individual purposes. Appealing to employees’ motivations enables leaders to help team members unite under a common goal. By extension,... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
By: Hazhir Rahmandad, 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
Rahmandad, Hazhir, Nelson P. Repenning, and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-027, October 2014.
- April 2004
- Case
D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer
By: Alan D. MacCormack, Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca Henderson
D-Wave Systems is a start-up seeking to commercialize a quantum computer. Its business model is unique: as of 2003, it had very few technical resources within the firm. Instead, it financed a series of projects undertaken at universities and government labs. In return... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Engineering; Investment; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Research and Development; Commercialization; Computer Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., Ajay Agrawal, and Rebecca Henderson. "D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer." Harvard Business School Case 604-073, April 2004.
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
by their B2B supply-chain focus,” Sani shared. “The importance of reducing food waste also hit me like a sack of potatoes. About a third of food created is wasted. Not only does that make it more difficult to feed the earth’s growing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
consumer research around the world to understand what people hoped their skincare products could do,” Twist explained. “I was also fortunate to learn from and be developed by several HBS alums (every leader on the Clinique Global... View Details
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Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research
By: Jeffrey Furman, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn and Rebecca M. Henderson
Furman, Jeffrey, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research." Annales d'économie et de statistique, nos. 79-80 (July–December 2005).
- 11 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)
School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a Process Engineer at... View Details
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. Rebecca View Details