Person/Rebecca Henderson

• Rebecca Henderson

  • About

    • Scholar of organizational change, innovation, and the role of business in building a sustainable economy. Her work examines how established firms respond to major technological shifts and how organizational purpose can support systemic change.
    • Research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Harvard Salata Institute biography

  • Academic Appointment

    • John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Uni/Harvard, with a joint appointment in the General Management and Strategy units at Harvard Business School.

  • Selected Publications

    • Person/Rebecca Henderson/Book/20/Reimagining Capitalism (2020) explores business responses to environmental and social crisis; it was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award.
    • Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time, Management Science 67, no. 9 (2021): 5479–5488 — organizational purpose and systemic innovation.
    • Research and cases — selected scholarship on organizational change, purpose, and capitalism.

  • Teaching

    • Developed Course/Reweaving Project, connecting personal and collective inner work with transformative systemic change. The spring 2027 syllabus brings readings, case discussions, experiential practice, and learning circles together. Reweaving Project
    • Teaches Reimagining Capitalism in the Harvard Business School MBA program.