Gary P. Pisano - Publications - Faculty & Research

Mar 2012
Article

Does America Really Need Manufacturing?

School's Pisano and Shih, executives need to examine two things. The first is modularity, or the degree to which product design can be separated from manufacturing. When modularity is low, product designs can't be clearly specified and... View Details

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

coming of age of biotechnology. The disappearance of "blockbuster" drugs could create new management challenges for pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Pisano The prospect is exhilarating, but the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

14 Dec 2012
News

High-Tech Factories Built to Be Engines of Innovation

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

with ASD have average or above average intelligence, yet 85 percent are unemployed. “Their intellectual horsepower is quite high,” Harvard Business School’s Gary P. Pisano says... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

07 Feb 2019
News

How Big Companies Can Out Run Disruption

30 Oct 2012
News

Q&A: U.S. Should Focus on Fostering the Right Kind of Manufacturing

07 Jan 2015
News

Cost of saving factory jobs via lower wages

25 Jun 2019
News

"Creative Construction"

20 Mar 2015
News

Big Pharma Needs to Get Busy in the Lab

11 Apr 2019
News

Large businesses don’t have to be lousy innovators

2006
Book

Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech

By: Gary P. Pisano

Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform up to expectations—despite all its promise? In Science Business, Gary P. Pisano answers this question by providing an incisive critique of the industry. Pisano not only reveals the underlying causes of... View Details

Keywords: Science; Business Ventures; Biotechnology Industry

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20 Jul 2015
News

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

cost/quality tradeoff for a Michelin-starred restaurant," said Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the lead author of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business School professors are more likely to be found in the pages of the Academy of Management Review than the New England Journal of Medicine, but recently Gary Pisano and Robert Huckman used the... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

lens of a surgical team implementing a revolutionary new procedure called MICS (minimally invasive cardiac surgery), professors Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M. Bohmer, and Gary P. View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

08 Feb 2019
Video

Innovation Lessons

08 Feb 2019
Video

Why do innovation initiatives fail?

07 May 2020
News

Harvard Business Review Announces First Recipient of Clayton M. Christensen Prize

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the work being... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

10 Aug 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Pal's Sudden Service: Taking Fast Food to the Next Level

Keywords: Re: Gary P. Pisano; Food & Beverage

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