by Rebecca Henderson - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

overcoming long odds. Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Can inclusivity, sustainability, and better governance boost economies? Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the impact investing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

conference at HBS that Ramanna is organizing with McArthur University Professor Rebecca M. Henderson will dive into these themes and other ideas to develop and clarify reporting standards. For the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

choose to commute by car. But if we can devise a better solution, savvy travelers will choose accordingly, and Planet Earth will be the beneficiary. Rebecca M. Henderson, Senator John Heinz Professor Of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights)... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Consumers also cautioned brands... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

collaborations become effective, an increasing number of companies will be able to engage in activities that create a more positive social impact. Professor Rebecca Henderson is writing a fascinating book on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

proved that each generation perceives its actions as rational but to (the) next it may appear irrational. This is the path to growth and development of civilization." Frances Pratt said, "What is normal and rational is framed by... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic orientations. This paper... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

improvement in the average produced a 2.5 percent improvement in unit revenue, or $250,000 in added revenue per hotel. In spite of the economics, organizations apparently are doing a poor job of building positive employee experiences, whether through trust or other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

in Oral Care Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-120 In 2011, Colgate-Palmolive (Colgate) was the global leader in oral care, with a dominant market share lead in toothpaste... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Question: How has the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

partnerships between the public and private sector to ensure that everyone has the skills—and the incentives!—to reduce their emissions. Climate change threatens the health of the entire economy. Business can lead the way by insisting... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

impose " Sudheer Thaakur concurred: " in a world that is more complex and uncertain and ambiguous we should be promoting slow and deliberative thinking. Till we do that we will not be able to fully utilize the opportunity offered View Details