Rebecca M. Henderson
Rebecca M. Henderson, FBA is an American economist, currently the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School.
She teaches Reimagining Capitalism 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. 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. 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 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited jointly with Ranjay Gulati and Michael Tushman, and published by the Oxford University Press.Honours
In July 2017, Henderson was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
