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- 2013
- Working Paper
Managers and Market 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 are engaging in the political process in an attempt to structure the institutions of... View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors
By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
A combination of concerns about climate change and energy security has recently led to significant increases in public funding for energy R&D. Some commentators are suggesting that these increases need to be sustained, and are advocating for increases of as much as... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research and Development; Pollutants; Climate Change; Energy Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Richard G. Newell. "Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-067, February 2010. (Revised February 2011.)
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- 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
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.)
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
addressing this critical issue and is quite simply broken. HBS’s own Professor Rebecca Henderson has emphasized this fact and underscored the conclusion that “business is central to finding a solution.” A... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust, by Professor Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta "Reflections on the Tumult in Washington D.C.," Professors Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Mihir Desai, and Rebecca... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster By: Rahmandad, Hazhir, Nelson P. Repenning, and Rebecca Henderson Abstract—Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
to prevent the mishandling of public information, the entire industry was being impacted. Saint-Amand is faced with the challenge of deciding how best to handle this crisis. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412004-PDF-ENG Sustainable Tea at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1997
- Chapter
On the Dynamics of Forecasting in Technologically Complex Environments: The Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical Lithography
Keywords: History; Information Technology; Situation or Environment; Complexity; Forecasting and Prediction; Technology Industry
Henderson, Rebecca M. "On the Dynamics of Forecasting in Technologically Complex Environments: The Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical Lithography." In Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights, edited by Raghu Garud, Praveen Rattan Nayyar, and Zur Baruch Shapira. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- 2000
- Chapter
'Luck', 'Leadership' and 'Strategy'
Henderson, Rebecca M. "'Luck', 'Leadership' and 'Strategy'." In Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management. Vol. 17, edited by J. A. C. Baum and Frank Dobbin, 285–289. Advances in Strategic Management. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 2000.
- July – August 2000
- Article
Drug Industry Mergers Won't Necessarily Benefit R&D
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Drug Industry Mergers Won't Necessarily Benefit R&D." Research-Technology Management 43, no. 4 (July–August 2000): 10–11.
- 1994
- Article
The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery
Henderson, Rebecca M. "The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery." Industrial and Corporate Change 3, no. 3 (1994): 607–630.
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Technical Note
Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage
This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that some firms outperform their competition because they can do things that their rivals cannot. View Details
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Technical Note 313-105, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- Research Summary
Overview
My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational... View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Technological Change and The Management of Architectural Knowledge
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Technological Change and The Management of Architectural Knowledge." In Transforming Organizations, edited by Thomas Kochan and Michael Useem. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. (Reprinted in Organizational Learning, edited by Michael D. Cohen and Lee S. Sproull, Calif.: Sage Publications Inc., 1996.)
- 1996
- Chapter
Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in Photolighographic Alignment Equipment
Keywords: Technology Industry
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in Photolighographic Alignment Equipment." In Managing Product Development, edited by T. Nishiguchi. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Winner of Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research presented by Jon M. Huntsman School of Business.)
- January–February 1994
- Article
Managing Innovation in the Information Age
Henderson, Rebecca M. "Managing Innovation in the Information Age." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 1 (January–February 1994): 100–106.
- January 2006
- Article
The Innovator's Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence
Henderson, Rebecca M. "The Innovator's Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence." Journal of Product Innovation Management 23 (January 2006): 5–11.