Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at Harvard Business School within the General Management and Strategy units. She is a analysis fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as co-chair of the Harvard University Climate Change Task Force, as well as on the board of several public companies. Her course, Reimagining Capitalism, is likely one of the hottest elective programs in the Harvard Business School MBA Program. Sustainable Business Strategy illustrates how businesses can thrive and grow whereas simultaneously fixing some of the world’s biggest challenges—and the way you, as an individual, could make a distinction.
We know that firms with engaged employees outperform these with less engaged staff. Yet, according to Gallup, a staggering 87 percent of workers worldwide aren’t engaged. An exit strategy is not only about when to exit your corporation …