BCG Henderson Institute

Search
Generic filters

Martin Reeves

Chairman, BCG Henderson Institute

Expertise

Education

  • MBA, Cranfield University School of Management
  • MA, natural sciences, University of Cambridge
  • Certification in Japanese, Osaka University of Foreign Studies
  • Postgraduate research in biophysics, University of Tokyo

BHI Affiliation
Location
San Francisco
Contact

Martin Reeves

Chairman, BCG Henderson Institute

Martin Reeves is Chairman of the BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank dedicated to exploring and developing valuable new insights from business, technology, economics, and science by embracing the powerful technology of ideas.

Martin is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Fortune, and other management journals on business strategy and management.

A regular public speaker and a repeat TED@BCG presenter, Martin is coauthor of The Imagination Machine, an executive’s guide to systematically harnessing imagination for corporate reinvention and rejuvenation. He also coauthored Your Strategy Needs a Strategy, which proposes the “strategy palette” as a tool to enable business leaders to tune their approach to strategy to the strategic environment of each business.

Featured articles by Martin

BCG Henderson Institute | March 15, 2023

Making Corporate Change Work: Lessons from Superprojects

We attempt to distill the lessons from two truly ambitious projects—NASA’s Apollo program and Pfizer’s Lightspeed project—and show how, to succeed, projects and organizations must resolve the tensions between ingenuity and control.

Harvard Business Review | March 15, 2023

Has Your Organization Acted on What It’s Learned in the Pandemic?

As the pandemic marks a third anniversary, business leaders around the world are eager to move on. But few companies have systematically institutionalized what they’ve learned from their Covid-19 experience to build resilience.

BCG Henderson Institute | January 3, 2023

Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Corporate Entanglement

In the increasingly politicized environment, leaders face the choice of leaning into politics or having the courage of restraint by limiting engagement. We argue they should choose restraint, for the sake of business and society.

Books, authored by Martin

2021
The Imagination Machine

Most leaders agree that imagination in business is crucial for success but they struggle to cultivate this capability. Explore how to harness the power of imagination.

2015
Your Strategy Needs a Strategy

The world of strategy is thick with ideas and frameworks; Your Strategy Needs a Strategy will help you cut through the noise and find clarity regarding which approach, or combination of approaches, is your best bet.

Thinkers & Ideas podcast co-hosted by Martin

Inspiring and thought-provoking conversations with authors about influential ideas on business, technology, economics, and science.

28 Minutes | March 8, 2022

Moonshot with Dr. Albert Bourla

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla shares the story of the creation of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine on our Thinkers and Ideas podcast.

29 Minutes | April 26, 2022

Redesigning Work with Lynda Gratton

Join Lynda Gratton is a Professor of Management Practice at London Business School as she explains how to deliberately redesign work taking into account not only the specifics of each job, but also a range of other technological, social and ethical factors.

28 Minutes | June 2, 2022

Tomorrow’s Capitalist with Alan Murray

“The history of the 20th century was about making people be better machines (…) the 21st century is going to be about making business more human.”

Recent Work

View All

30 Minutes | March 21, 2023

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism with Martin Wolf

"We can never assume that our comfortable, safe lives in a democratic capitalist society are going to go on forever if we don’t do anything for it. The system is wonderful, but it’s also fragile."

Harvard Business Review | March 15, 2023

Has Your Organization Acted on What It’s Learned in the Pandemic?

As the pandemic marks a third anniversary, business leaders around the world are eager to move on. But few companies have systematically institutionalized what they’ve learned from their Covid-19 experience to build resilience.

BCG Henderson Institute | March 15, 2023

Making Corporate Change Work: Lessons from Superprojects

We attempt to distill the lessons from two truly ambitious projects—NASA’s Apollo program and Pfizer’s Lightspeed project—and show how, to succeed, projects and organizations must resolve the tensions between ingenuity and control.

26 Minutes | March 13, 2023

Sustainability, Technology, and Finance with Georg Kell and Andreas Rasche

“It's time to bridge different domains and show how technology and finance are driving forces for sustainability. With this book, we wanted to tear down barriers and maximize the synergies between these three distinct fields.”

BCG Henderson Institute | March 2, 2023

Chatting About Strategy

The uses and limits of large language models.

28 Minutes | February 27, 2023

Direct with Kathryn Judge

“It's not that intermediaries are bad, but we need to be smart about the role they play, and smart about the risks associated with their size and their multiplicity.”