Rebecca M. Henderson, FBA is an American economist, currently the John and Natty McArthur

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Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

. She teaches Reimagining

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in the

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(MBA) Program. From 1998 to 2009, Professor Henderson was the Eastman Kodak Professor of Management at the Sloan School of the

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. She received an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a doctorate in business economics from Harvard.

Honours

In July 2017, Henderson was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

References

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