by Rebecca Henderson - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

audience at Harvard Business School on Monday. "If you are a Republican, it's like a formal requirement to be a nonbeliever in climate change. And that's bad." In conversation with Harvard University Professor Rebecca Henderson,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2015
News

Let's talk climate change

24 Aug 2016
News

Michelin isn't reinventing the wheel, it's reinventing the rubber supply chain

22 Oct 2020
News

What I wish I’d known at the start of the pandemic

09 Nov 2022
In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

20 May 2021
News

Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

26 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus

Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

difference. If there’s a way to build collective commitment to continuing to move forward I think we’ll emerge in much better shape than if every firm focuses only on its own concerns. Rebecca Henderson... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

14 Mar 2011
News

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

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/SSRN%20-%20Org%20Sci%20Rewrite%20for%20ssrn_b75b2c22-40f6-430f-be8f-9797e71fe2ea.pdf September 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors By: Helper,... 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

09 Aug 2010
News

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

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