Rebecca Henderson is one of 25 University Professors at Harvard, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert on innovation and organizational change, and her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose, innovation and productivity in high performance organizations. Rebecca sits on the board of CERES, and has more than twenty five years cumulative experience on major corporate boards. In 2019 she was named one of three “Outstanding Directors of the year” by the Financial Times.
Her publications include Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. For several years she taught “Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems”, a course that grew from 28 students to over 300 and that is the basis for the recently released Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire – a book that was shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey 2020 Business Book of the Year Award.
