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- February 2007 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics
By: Robert S. Huckman, Gary P. Pisano and Mark Rennella
Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics--jointly affecting all R&D scientists--for the progression...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Measurement and Metrics;
Business Processes;
Organizational Structure;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Creativity;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Huckman, Robert S., Gary P. Pisano, and Mark Rennella. "Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics." Harvard Business School Case 607-008, February 2007. (Revised April 2010.)
- September 2002 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Gary P. Pisano and Ning Tang
Istituto Clinico Humanitas is a newly built private hospital, south of Milan, Italy, that has attained unusual profitability while treating public system patients. The hospital was built and is managed by Techosp, a subsidiary of Techint, a global engineering and...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Management Systems;
Infrastructure;
Managerial Roles;
Integration;
Performance;
Health Industry;
Milan
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Gary P. Pisano, and Ning Tang. "Istituto Clinico Humanitas (A)." Harvard Business School Case 603-063, September 2002. (Revised April 2006.)
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
despite all its promise? In Science Business, Gary P. Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- August 2022
- Teaching Plan
Institutionalized Entrepreneurship: Flagship Pioneering
By: Gary Pisano and Francesca Gino
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 718-484 and Video Supplement 922-706.
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- January 2022
- Supplement
Institutionalized Entrepreneurship: Flagship Pioneering
By: Gary Pisano and Francesca Gino
The link to this case supplement video playlist should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.
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Pisano, Gary, and Francesca Gino. "Institutionalized Entrepreneurship: Flagship Pioneering." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 922-706, January 2022.
- January 2022
- Case
Strategic Agility: Lessons from the Game of Poker
By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
Gino, Francesca, and Gary Pisano. "Strategic Agility: Lessons from the Game of Poker." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 922-705, January 2022.
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Supplement
Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (B)
By: Vicki Sato and Gary Pisano
This case accompanies the (A) case from Anthony Starks's perspective.
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Keywords:
Biotech;
Management Challenges;
R&D;
R&D Project Management;
Management;
Biotechnology Industry;
California
Sato, Vicki, and Gary Pisano. "Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 617-030, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- 2005
- Working Paper
Holding or Folding? R&D Portfolio Strategy Under Different Information Regimes
By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
Gino, Francesca, and Gary Pisano. "Holding or Folding? R&D Portfolio Strategy Under Different Information Regimes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 05-072, April 2005.
- Working Paper
Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry
By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Diversification;
Market Entry and Exit;
Transformation
Randle, Dominika Kinga, and Gary P. Pisano. "Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-032, December 2022.
- 2020
- Working Paper
The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy
By: Dominika K. Sarnecka and Gary P. Pisano
Over the past few decades, a consensus has emerged that breakthrough innovations emerge from exploration of novel terrain while more routine innovations are the product of exploitation. In this paper, we revisit this explore versus exploit dichotomy with an analysis...
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Keywords:
Breakthrough Innovation;
Exploration And Exploitation;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation
Sarnecka, Dominika K., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-071, December 2020.
- February 2010 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Merger Integration at Bank of America: The TrustWeb Project
By: Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats
This case explores project management in a large organization through the eyes of a young project manager, Mike Morris. Morris is tasked with leading a project within the overall merger integration effort at Bank of America. Morris encounters difficulties with managing...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Management Skills;
Business Processes;
Projects;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Banking Industry;
United States
Pisano, Gary P., and Bradley R. Staats. "Merger Integration at Bank of America: The TrustWeb Project." Harvard Business School Case 610-054, February 2010. (Revised April 2010.)
- August 1993
- Case
Applichem (A) (Abridged)
By: Janice H. Hammond and Gary P. Pisano
Applichem manufactures the same chemical product in four plants, each of which is located in a different country. The company has completed a major study comparing the productivity and performance of these plants. Using the data from the study, students must decide...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Evaluation;
Strategy;
Judgments;
Factories, Labs, and Plants;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Chemical Industry
Hammond, Janice H., and Gary P. Pisano. "Applichem (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 694-030, August 1993.
- April 2006
- Article
The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 52, no. 4 (April 2006): 473–488.
- March 3, 2005
- Article
Adopting New Technologies: Turf Battles in Coronary Revascularization
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "Adopting New Technologies: Turf Battles in Coronary Revascularization." New England Journal of Medicine 352, no. 9 (March 3, 2005): 857–859.
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery
By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano
Huckman, Robert S., and Gary P. Pisano. "The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery." January 2005.
- July 2022
- Article
A Strategic View of Team Learning in Organizations
By: Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson and Gary P. Pisano
Research in strategic management and organizational behavior has increasingly focused on understanding how organizations achieve and sustain performance in fast-changing environments. Strategy research suggests that senior managers, through their decisions, influence...
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Keywords:
Strategic Management;
Organization Behavior;
Teams;
Organizational Capabilities;
Groups and Teams;
Learning;
Management;
Decision Making;
Performance;
Organizational Design
Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano. "A Strategic View of Team Learning in Organizations." Academy of Management Annals 16, no. 2 (July 2022): 476–507.
- January 2022
- Case
Strategic Agility: Lessons from Jazz
By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano
Gino, Francesca, and Gary Pisano. "Strategic Agility: Lessons from Jazz." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 922-704, January 2022.
- November 2016
- Case
Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (A)
By: Gary Pisano and Vicki Sato
When Bruce Wayne hired Anthony Starks, he thought he had hit a home run by getting the most brilliant and passionate scientist-leader in the field to be his CSO. But a few months in, Wayne and Starks begin to clash over crucial forward-looking decisions about the...
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Keywords:
Biotech;
Silicon;
Managing Innovation;
Management Challenges;
Managing People;
Managing Organization;
R&D;
R&D Project Management;
Platform;
Venture Capital;
Drug Discovery;
management;
Biotechnology Industry;
California
Pisano, Gary, and Vicki Sato. "Anthony Starks at InSiL Therapeutics (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-029, November 2016.
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Special Issue on Management Innovation-Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. ChandlerIndustrial and...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
leaders catalyzing a networked community of scientists that focus on big problems—we know that each of these different institutions is innovative and successful, and we want to better understand their best practices." Turning Science Into Business HBS professor...
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