Rebecca M. Henderson

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Rebecca M. Henderson (2017)

Rebecca Marta Henderson (* 1959 ) is an American economist. She is a professor at Harvard Business School .

Life

Henderson studied mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1978 to 1981 . From 1983 to 1988 she did her PhD at Harvard on The Failure of Established Firms in the Face of Technological Change: A Study of Photolithographic Alignment Equipment . She has held various academic positions, including at the MIT Sloan School of Management , the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Harvard Business School. Since 2011 she has held the John and Natty McArthur University Professorship at Harvard .

In 2018, Henderson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Act

In her research, Henderson investigated the phenomenon of why the productivity of the top ten percent of the most profitable companies grows substantially faster than that of the rest of the companies; their findings led them to the statement that the most productive companies (Engl. by a purpose purpose driven), characterized invest in long-term values, in turn, increase its value as a whole and ultimately thus be more productive. Henderson differentiates between two types of purpose . If, on the one hand, this is understood in the sense of creating a community spirit and a family atmosphere, Henderson could not prove any effect on productivity; On the other hand, she was able to demonstrate increased productivity for companies with a mission alignment , which repeatedly show their employees reasons for hard cooperation. According to this, it is not enough for companies to commit themselves to maximizing profits ; instead, due to the climate crisis and other challenges , they must also strive for sustainability and inclusion . Henderson fears an expansion of the climate crisis, an expansion of populism and extensive political and social destabilization if companies continue to stick to pure profit maximization.

Henderson published her findings in the book Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire and teaches them in her course Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems at Harvard Business School.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rebecca Henderson / John and Natty McArthur University Professor / Harvard University Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed August 9, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Richard Feloni (2020). The top 10 percent of the most productive companies have one thing in common, says a Harvard professor. Business Insider. March 1, 2020, accessed on August 9, 2020. https://www.businessinsider.de/karriere/arbeitsleben/das-ist-das-geheimnis-der-top-10-prozent-der-produktivsten-unternehmen/
  4. ↑ Christoph Eisenring (2020) Harvard economist Rebecca Henderson: “Companies are not inherently bad. Rather, they can help transform capitalism ». NZZ. July 15, 2020, accessed on August 9, 2020. https://www.nzz.ch/wirtschaft/rebecca-henderson-firmen-sind-nicht-inhaerent-boese-ld.1565599
personal data
SURNAME Henderson, Rebecca M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henderson, Rebecca Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959