Rebecca Henderson

Rebecca Henderson is a prominent economist and influential professor (The John and Natty McArthur University professor at Harvard). She is one of the world’s most articulate, insightful and persuasive scholars focused on driving large-scale change. A leading authority in organizational and strategic change for more than thirty years, today her research, teaching and speaking centres on purpose-driven capitalism and the role that business leaders at every level can play in reimagining our current system.

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Rebecca Henderson is a prominent economist and influential professor (The John and Natty McArthur University professor at Harvard). She is one of the world’s most articulate, insightful and persuasive scholars focused on driving large-scale change. A leading authority in organizational and strategic change for more than thirty years, today her research, teaching and speaking centres on purpose-driven capitalism and the role that business leaders at every level can play in reimagining our current system.

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