Publications

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2004
Chapter

Consumer-Driven Health Care: Management Matters

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Demand and Consumers; Management; Health Industry

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

by the 1980s, that number had fallen to 18, and by 2015, it was just four. “Vaccines went out of fashion,” says HBS professor Gary Pisano, who studies the intersection of business and science. “There was a sense among investors that they... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

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. View Details

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. View Details

January 2022
Case

Strategic Agility: Lessons from the Game of Poker

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano

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. View Details

Keywords: Biotech; Management Challenges; R＆D; R＆D Project Management; Management; Biotechnology Industry; California

2005
Working Paper

Holding or Folding? R&D Portfolio Strategy Under Different Information Regimes

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano

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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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2006
Working Paper

Behavioral Operations

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano

03 Nov 2022
News

How Best to Bring Back Manufacturing

27 Mar 2020
News

Lessons from Italy’s Response to Coronavirus

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... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Management; Organization Behavior; Teams; Organizational Capabilities; Groups and Teams; Learning; Management; Decision Making; Performance; Organizational Design

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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... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Creativity; Pharmaceutical Industry

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... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Systems; Infrastructure; Managerial Roles; Integration; Performance; Health Industry; Milan

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

alumni event attracted more than sixty HBS graduates representing biotechnology, e-commerce, managed care, and pharmaceutical companies. The program featured briefings from HBS faculty members interested in issues related to health-care management. HBS professor View Details

Conference Presentation

Different Patterns of Performance improvement for explicit and tacit knowledge: An empirical test

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ann Winslow, Richard Bohmer and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Performance Improvement; Knowledge

January 2022
Case

Strategic Agility: Lessons from Jazz

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano