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  • spring 1996
  • Article

Scale, Scope and Spillovers: The Determinants of Research Productifity in Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ian Cockburn
Keywords: Research; Product; Health
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  • April 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Kodak (A)

By: Giovanni M. Gavetti, Rebecca Henderson and Simona Giorgi
The introduction of digital imaging in the late 1980s had a disruptive effect on Kodak's traditional business model. Examines Kodak's strategic efforts and challenges as the photography industry evolves. After discussing Kodak's history and its past strategic moves in... View Details
Keywords: History; Business Model; Leadership; Disruption; Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Supplement

The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • News

We Don't Have to Ditch Capitalism to Fight Climate Change

Keywords: climate change; capitalism; carbon tax; subsidies; alternative energy
  • 19 Apr 2021
  • News

Confronting Climate Change

  • 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
  • April 2011
  • Case

Shell Nigeria: The WikiLeaks Cables

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Rebecca M. Henderson and Matthew Preble
In November 2010, WikiLeaks began releasing the first of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables that it had obtained. Among the thousands of cables published by early 2011, were several that shed light on Royal Dutch Shell's operations in Nigeria and its... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Generation; Operations; Communication Technology; Crime and Corruption; Metals and Minerals; Ethics; Energy Industry; Nigeria
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  • 20 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

encouraging them to participate in case studies and other research. The School hopes that highlighting these higher-ambition efforts could act as a template for other companies to follow. "I do think you are very important," HBS Professor View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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  • 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

  • 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 by one person, it’d be pretty... View Details
  • Article

Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research

By: Jeffrey Furman, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn and Rebecca M. Henderson
Keywords: Geographic Location; Knowledge; Health; Research
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • News

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

  • 21 Sep 2013
  • News

Harvard Kicks Off Fundraising Effort

Keywords: The Harvard Campaign; research; Bill Gates; Educational Services; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 22 Sep 2020
  • News

A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change

  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Building a Movement

and central to what they do. We have to be thinking about how we’re going to support our students and business leaders to do that. The EC course that Rebecca Henderson (MBA 1985) and George Serafeim have... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The HBS Fund

Rebecca Henderson. Henderson’s research explores how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. Through interactive case studies, students learn how businesses can... View Details