Anita McGahan in conversation with Rebecca Karp

October 19, 2026
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About the Guest


Interview Speaker

Rebecca Karp

Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. Becky teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. She is a field researcher and ethnographer who examines how companies formulate and execute strategies. In particular, she focuses on the role...

Reflections from the Interview


Professor Becky Karp has always loved stories.  Reading stories.  Writing stories.   She became a professor to understand, through field research and ethnography, the stories of great innovators who see the potential for new technologies to revitalize the meaning of what we experience in our interactions with each other.  In this talk, Becky describes her research on what it takes to do this effectively.  She describes, for example, the importance of openness that is integrated with governance that prevents junk from...

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