Episode description

How do we reimagine capitalism in a world on fire?

That's today's big question, and my guest is Rebecca Henderson, Harvard professor behind the wildly popular class "Reimagining Capitalism".

I had Rebecca on the show in 2020 to discuss her book of the same name and her research, which explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing on the relationships between organizational purpose, innovation, productivity, and high-performance organizations.

What Rebecca discovered over the last decade or so of research is that focusing exclusively on shareholder profits is a pretty terrible way to run a company in the long run. And it could burn this whole thing down in the short, in the long term.

The silver lining is, as we try to present here all the time, of the four to five catastrophes happening in this country at any given moment, many also present unprecedented opportunities to build a better today and tomorrow for everyone.

Here's my 2020 conversation with Rebecca Henderson.

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INI Book Club:

• "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" by Kate Raworth
• Find all of our guest recommendations at the INI Book Club: https://bookshop.org/lists/important-not-important-book-club

Links:

• reimaginingcapitalism.org
• “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire”
• Twitter: @RebeccaReCap
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rebecca-henderson-recap
• Read Ed Yong’s “How the Pandemic Defeated America”

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• Edited by Anthony Luciani
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