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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. And it caught Professor Henderson’s eye. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas.

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A Partial Defense of Our Obsession with Short-Term Earnings

Harvard Business Review

HBS professor Rebecca Henderson , along with Hazhir Rahmandad of Virginia Tech and Nelson Repenning of MIT, set out to explore that apparent contradiction. I spoke with Professor Henderson about their research. Henderson: To answer that, I need to tell you about two different research interests. Insight Center.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. Henderson : I’ve seen the same effect in my own work. The result will be innovation.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.

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The Future Economy Project

Harvard Business Review

How can you make core business operations more sustainable? Our advisers: Rebecca Henderson. Regardless of your views on the who, what, when, and why of climate change, the pursuit of sustainable processes up and down supply chains can translate into immediate savings — and opportunities for innovation. Paulson Jr.

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Customer-Centric Org Charts Aren’t Right for Every Company

Harvard Business Review

” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based Henderson of the University of Oregon and Irina V. Moreover, customer-centric firms that operated in highly competitive markets had 69% lower performance, compared with product-centric peers. But our research, conducted with Conor M.