by Gary Pisano - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Apr 2013
HBS Seminar

Gary Frazier, USC Marshall School of Business

January 2011
Book Review

Rethinking Decision Making, book review of The Art of Choosing, by Sheena Iyengar, and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, by Gary Klein

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions

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17 Jan 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents

Keywords: by David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

the distortion, misrepresentation, and gaming that can happen in even the most ethical companies," Hope continues. "If you're a manager trying to increase spending or get a capital project approved, you put in for 50 percent more than you need, knowing you'll... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gary

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Gary Works Photograph Album | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Visit & Contact Us Special Collections Baker Library Search Search Search U.S. Steel Exhibition Gary Works Photograph Album Gary Works Photograph Album This... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Learning Tradeoffs in Organizations: Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Improvement to Investigate Learning-Curve Heterogeneity

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Gary P. Pisano & Ann B. Winslow; Health

October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
Case

Herman Miller (A): Innovation by Design

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

Gary Van Spronsen, president of Miller SQA, has been asked to leave the thriving subsidiary he helped to reinvent to join Herman Miller's corporate initiative on innovation. Miller SQA has pioneered processes new to the Herman Miller organization, such as... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Organizations; Values and Beliefs; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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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 of the ASD population. “They... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

“Larger companies are rarely seen as fountains of innovation,” says Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano. Yet scale, if properly exploited, can still be an engine for transformation. In his new book Creative Construction: The DNA... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

economy, and factor cost differentials, like labor costs, became more important, Pisano says. That's why there was a huge outflow of unskilled apparel manufacturing from the United States. "There's nothing that makes it sticky," he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

12 Jul 2017
News

Forget the science. These investors think they can pick biotech winners by algorithm

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. Pisano have looked beyond... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

Pisano said. “You talk to this guy and you think he's a production engineer" — Gary Pisano The precise attention to detail is also key to creating a menu that the chef... View Details

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

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

26 Jan 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment

Keywords: by Jin Li, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu

Article

Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats

It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Practice; Experience and Expertise

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