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Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School in the General Management and Strategy units and is the Co-Director of the Business and Environment Initiative. Professor Henderson is also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work explores how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. She teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the field study seminar Building Green Businesses in the MBA Program. From 1998 to 2009, Professor Henderson was the Eastman Kodak Professor of Management at the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she ran the strategy group and taught courses in strategy, technology strategy, and sustainability. She received an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a doctorate in business economics from Harvard. Professor Henderson sits on the boards of Amgen and of IDEXX Laboratories, and she has worked with both members of the Fortune 100 and small, technology-orientated start-ups. She was retained by the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with the remedies phase of the Microsoft trial, and in 2001 she was named Teacher of the Year at the Sloan School. Her work has been published in a range of scholarly journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, The RAND Journal of Economics, and Organization Science. Her most recent publication is Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors, edited jointly with Richard Newell and published by the University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research.
Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School in the General Management and Strategy units and is the Co-Director of the Business and Environment Initiative. Professor Henderson is also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work explores how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. She teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the field study seminar Building Green Businesses in the MBA Program. From 1998 to 2009, Professor Henderson was the Eastman Kodak Professor of Management at the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she ran the strategy group and taught courses in strategy, technology strategy, and sustainability. She received an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a doctorate in business economics from Harvard. Professor Henderson sits on the boards of Amgen and of IDEXX Laboratories, and she has worked with both members of the Fortune 100 and small, technology-orientated start-ups. She was retained by the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with the remedies phase of the Microsoft trial, and in 2001 she was named Teacher of the Year at the Sloan School. Her work has been published in a range of scholarly journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, The RAND Journal of Economics, and Organization Science. Her most recent publication is Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors, edited jointly with Richard Newell and published by the University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research.
| Current Institution | Harvard University |
| Disciplines | |
| Birthday | October 28,1960 |
| Address | Harvard Business School Boston Massachusetts United States Phone: 617-495-8014 |
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Education
Harvard University
Ph.D.,
Business Economics
(1983 - 1988)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.B.,
Mechanical Engineering
(1978 - 1981)
Work Experience
John and Natty McArthur University Professor
Harvard University
(2011 - Present)
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management
Harvard Business School
(2009 - 2011)
Achievements
General
Publication Summary
Books
- Henderson, Rebecca, and Richard G. Newell, eds. Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors. University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011.
Published Papers
- Gibbons, Robert, and Rebecca Henderson. "Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities." Organization Science (forthcoming).
- Henderson, Rebecca M., John Sterman, Eric Beinhocker, and Lee Newman. "Getting Big Too Fast: Strategic Dynamics with Increasing Returns and Bounded Rationality." Management Science 53, no. 4 (April 2007): 683-696.
- Gawer, Annabelle, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Platform Owner Entry and Innovation in Complementary Markets: Evidence from Intel." Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 16, no. 1 (spring 2007).
- Furman, Jeffrey, Margaret K. Kyle, Iain Cockburn, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Knowledge Spillovers, Geographic Location, and the Productivity of Pharmaceutical Research." Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, nos. 79-80 (2006).
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "The Innovator's Dilemma as a Problem of Organizational Competence." Journal of Product Innovation Management 23 (January 2006): 5-11.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Sarah Kaplan. "Inertia and Incentives: Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Competence." Organization Science 16, no. 5 (September-October 2005): 509-521.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Adam Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg. "Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment: Comment." American Economic Review (March 2005): 416-464.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Nicola Lacetera, and Iain Cockburn. "Do Firms Change Capabilities by Hiring New People? A Study of the Adoption of Science-based Drug Discovery." Advances in Strategic Management 21 (2004).
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Sarah Kaplan, and Fiona Murray. "Discontinuities and Senior Management: Assessing the Role of Recognition in Pharmaceutical Firm Response to Biotechnology." Industrial and Corporate Change 12, no. 2 (2003).
- Agrawal, Ajay, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT." Management Science 48, no. 1 (January 2002): 44-60.
- Henderson, Rebecca, and Iain Cockburn. "Scale and Scope in Drug Development: Unpacking the Advantages of Size in Pharmaceutical Research." Journal of Health Economics 20, no. 6 (2001).
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ajay Agrawal. "Putting Patents in Context: Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT." Economic Institutions of Strategy 21 (fall 2000): 1123-1145. (Reprinted in Advances in Strategic Management, Volume 26, “Economic Institutions of Strategy," edited by J. Nickerson and B. Silverman, 2009.)
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Iain Cockburn, and Scott Stern. "Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage." Strategic Management Journal 21 (fall 2000): 1123-1145. (Reprinted in The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities: Emergence, Development and Change, edited by C. Helfat. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.)
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "Drug Industry Mergers Won't Necessarily Benefit R&D." Research Technology Management 43, no. 4 (July - August 2000): 10-11.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Absorptive Capacity, Coauthoring Behavior, and the Organization of Research in Drug Discovery." Journal of Industrial Economics XLVI, no. 2 (June 1998): 157-182.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Jesus del Alamo, Todd Becker, James Lawton, Peter Moran, Saul Shapiro, and Dean Vlasak. "The Perils of Excellence: Barriers to Effective Process Improvement in Product-Driven Firms." Production and Operations Management 7, no. 1 (spring 1998): 2-18.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Will Mitchell. "The Interactions of Organizational and Competitive Influences on Strategy and Performance." Strategic Management Journal 18 (summer 1997): 5-14.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Adam Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg. "University versus Corporate Patents: A Window on the Basicness of Invention." Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5, no. 1 (1997): 19-50.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Iain Cockburn. "Scale and Scope in Drug Development: Unpacking the Advantages of Size in Pharmaceutical Research." Journal of Health Economics 27, no. 1 (spring 1996): 32-59.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ian Cockburn. "Scale, Scope and Spillovers: The Determinants of Research Productifity in Drug Discovery." RAND Journal of Economics 27, no. 1 (spring 1996): 32-59.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "Of Life Cycles Real and Imaginary: The Unexpectedly Long Old Age of Optical Lithography." Research Policy 24 (1995): 631-643.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ian Cockburn. "Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery." Strategic Management Journal 15 (winter 1994): 63-84. (Winner of the 2010 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society.)
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ian Cockburn. "Racing to Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery." Journal of Economics and Business Strategy 3, no. 3 (fall 1994): 481-519.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "Managing Innovation in the Information Age." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 1 (January-February 1994): 100-106.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "The Evolution of Integrative Capability: Innovation in Cardiovascular Drug Discovery." Industrial and Corporate Change 3, no. 3 (1994): 607-630.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Adam Jaffe, and Manuel Trajtenberg. "Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations." Quarterly Journal of Economics 434 (August 1993): 578-598. (Reprinted in Recent Developments in Growth Theory, edited by Daron Acemoglu, Cheltenham U.K: Elgar, 2004.)
- Henderson, Rebecca. "Underinvestment and Incompetence as Responses to Radical Innovation: Evidence from the Photolithographic Industry." RAND Journal of Economics 24, no. 2 (summer 1993).
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Peter Moran, Scott Andrew Elliott, Neil Wylie, and Jesus del Alamo. "A Process Control Methodology Applied to Manufacturing GaAs MMICs." IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing 4, no. 4 (November 1991).
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "Breaking the Chains of Embedded Knowledge: Architectural Innovation as a Source of Competitive Advantage." Design Management Journal 2, no. 3 (Summer 1991).
- Henderson, Rebecca M., C. Shipp, and T. Gutowski. "Manufacturing Costs for Advanced Composites Aerospace Parts." SAMPE (Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineeering) 27, no. 3 (May - June 1991).
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Kim B. Clark. "Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and The Failure of Established Firms." Administrative Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 1990): 9-30. (Reprinted in The Management of Innovation, edited by John Storey, London: Elgar, 2004; Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, edited by M.Tushman and P. Anderson, Oxford University Press, 2004; and in Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, edited by Robert Burgelman, Clayton Christensen and Steven Wheelwright. Oxford University Press, 2004. Translated into Chinese for inclusion in an ASQ sponsored collection of "best papers" in 2005.)
Book Chapters
- Henderson, Rebecca and Robert Gibbons. "What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises." In The Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by Robert Gibbons and John Roberts. Princeton University Press, forthcoming.
- 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.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. and S. Chowdhury. "Strategic Advantage and the Dynamics of Organizational Competence." Chap. 17 in Next Generation Business Handbook: New Strategies from Tomorrow's Thought Leaders, edited by Subir Chowdhury, 294-312. John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "'Luck', 'Leadership' and 'Strategy': Economics Meets Sociology." In Advances in Strategic Management, 285-290. Stamford, Conn.: JAI Press Inc., 2000.
- Henderson, Rebecca and Iain Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." Chap. 1 in Innovation Policy and the Economy, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. NBER. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2000.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. and Iain Cockburn. "Measuring Competence? Exploring firm Effects in Drug Discovery." Chap. 6 in The Nature and Dynamics or Organizational Capabilities, edited by Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney Winter. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. and Iain Cockburn. "The Economics of Drug Discovery." Chap. 5 in Pharmaceutical Innovation, edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis and Alexander Scriabine, 308-331. Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Press, 1999.
- Henderson, Rebecca, Gary P. Pisano, and Luigi Orsenigo. "The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Revolution in Molecular Biology: Interactions Among Scientific, Institutional, and Organizational Change." In Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries, edited by David Mowery and Richard Nelson. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 the 1996 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research.)
- Henderson, Rebecca M. and Ian Cockburn. "The Determinants of Research Productivity in Ethical Drug Discovery." In Competitive Strategies in the Pharmaceutical Industry, edited by Robert B. Helms. Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1996.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg. "Trends in University Patenting 1965-1992." In University Goals, Institutional Mechanisms and the "Industrial Transferability" of Research. Stanford University Press, 1996.
- Henderson, Rebecca M. "Technological Change and The Management of Architectural Knowledge." In Transforming Organizations, edited by T. Kochan and M. Useem. Oxford University Press, 1992. (Reprinted in Organizational Learning, edited by Michael D. Cohen and Lee S. Sproull, Calif.: Sage Publications Inc., 1996.)
Other Papers
- Gibbons, R., and R. Henderson. "Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-061, January 2012.
- Bresnahan, Timothy, Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca Henderson. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope; Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-077, January 2011.
- Repenning, Nelson P., and Rebecca Henderson. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-033, September 2010.
- 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.)
Teaching and Training Materials
- Henderson, Rebecca, C. Reavis, R. Locke, and C. Liddy. "Nike Considered: Getting Traction on Sustainability." Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2008.
- Henderson, Rebecca, and C. Reavis. "Corning Inc.: The Growth and Strategy Council." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2008.
- Henderson, Rebecca, and C. Reavis. "Eli Lilly: Recreating Drug Discovery for the 21st Century." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2008.
- Henderson, Rebecca, C. Reavis, and N. Hofmeister. "Gridlogix." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2008.
- Henderson, Rebecca. "Eli Lilly's Project Resilience: Anticipating the Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2007.
- Henderson, Rebecca, J. Conkling, and R. Nanda. "Sun Power: Focused on the Future of the Solar Power Industry." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2007.
- Henderson, Rebecca, J. Sternman, and R. Nanda. "Ventures in Salt: Compass Minerals International." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2005.
HBS Course Materials
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Best Practice in Consumer Packaged Goods Management (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 312-062.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Colgate-Palmolive: Staying Ahead in Oral Care." Harvard Business School Case 311-120.
- Henderson, Rebecca. "Corning, Inc.: Technology Strategy in 2003." Harvard Business School Case 703-440.
- Henderson, Rebecca, and Nancy Confrey. "Ember Corporation: Developing the Next Ubiquitous Network Standard." Harvard Business School Case 703-448.
- Gavetti, Giovanni M., Rebecca Henderson, and Simona Giorgi. "Kodak (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-503.
- Gavetti, Giovanni M., Rebecca Henderson, and Simona Giorgi. "Kodak and The Digital Revolution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-448.Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "L’Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge." Harvard Business School Case 311-118.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Karthik Ramanna. "Managers and Market Capitalism." Harvard Business School Module Note 112-043.
- Henderson, Rebecca, and Nancy Confrey. "Mercury Computer Systems: The Evolution from Integrated Technology to Open Standard." Harvard Business School Case 704-424.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Nestlé SA: Nutrition, Health and Wellness Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 311-119.
- Henderson, Rebecca, and Nancy Confrey. "Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen." Harvard Business School Case 703-450.
- Yoffie, David B., and Rebecca Henderson. "Nokia and MIT's Project Oxygen (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 704-474.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Procter & Gamble: Marketing Capabilities." Harvard Business School Case 311-117.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Reckitt Benckiser: Fast and Focused Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 311-116.
- Sucher, Sandra J., Rebecca M. Henderson, and Matthew Preble. "Shell Nigeria: The WikiLeaks Cables." Harvard Business School Case 311-084.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., Noel Maurer, and Cathy Ross. "The Smart Grid." Harvard Business School Case 310-072.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Frederik Peter Nellemann. "Sustainable Tea at Unilever." Harvard Business School Case 712-438.
- Henderson, Rebecca M., and Frederik Peter Nellemann. "Sustainable Tea at Unilever (teaching plan)." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 712-448.
Books
Accelerating energy innovationRe-orienting current energy systems toward a far greater reliance on technologies with low or no carbon dioxide emissions is an immense challenge. At the broadest level the histories presented... |
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