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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano
The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
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    Steven C. Wheelwright

    Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

    Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations
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    • October 2017
    • Article

    Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
    Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

    Gary P. Pisano Raha Imanirad, 2020 York University, Schulich School of Business Advisors: Ananth Raman , Ryan W. Buell , and Soroush Saghafian Caleb Kwon, 2024 University of... View Details
    • 19 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July – August 2009
    • Article

    Restoring American Competitiveness

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
    For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States
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    • January–February 2019
    • Article

    The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Innovative cultures are generally depicted as pretty fun. They’re characterized by a tolerance for failure and a willingness to experiment. They’re seen as being psychologically safe, highly collaborative, and nonhierarchical. And research suggests that these behaviors... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Innovation and Invention; Performance Expectations; Leadership
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    • January 2016
    • Case

    SAP SE: Autism at Work

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Robert D. Austin
    This case describes SAP's "Autism at Work" program, which integrates people with autism into the company's workforce. The company has a stated objective of making 1% of its workforce people with autism by 2020. SAP's rationale for the program is based on the belief... View Details
    Keywords: Software; Human Resource Management; Diversity Management; Germany; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Applications and Software; Recruitment; Diversity; Information Technology Industry; Germany
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    • March–April 2024
    • Article

    How Fast Should Your Company Really Grow?

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Growth—in revenues and profits—is the yardstick by which the competitive fitness and health of organizations is measured. Consistent profitable growth is thus a near universal goal for leaders—and an elusive one.

    To achieve that goal, companies need a growth... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture
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    • 2019
    • Book

    Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Creativity; Leading Change
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    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management Faculty - Faculty & Research

    Lecturer of Business Administration Elisabeth C. Paulson Assistant Professor of Business Administration Gary P. Pisano Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration... View Details
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    Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage

    By: Robert D. Austin and Gary P. Pisano
    Many people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including those in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Diversity; Competency and Skills
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    • October 2008 (Revised February 2012)
    • Case

    Amazon Web Services

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Gary P. Pisano and Liz Kind
    Considers the development of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a division of Amazon.com, Inc., specializing in the provision of web-based storage and computing services to web developers. The case focuses on the issues facing Andy Jassy, the head of AWS, in 2008 as AWS faces... View Details
    Keywords: Price; Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Competition; Diversification; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • November 2009 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Warner Bros. Entertainment

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Examines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films with the potential to generate gross box office receipts of $300... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Film Entertainment; Risk Management; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Projects; Sales; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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    • September 2016
    • Case

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise: The Dandelion Program

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Robert D. Austin
    This case describes Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s “Dandelion Program," which has developed a new service offering for the company’s clients by drawing on the special talents of people with autism. The company has deployed “pods” organized around 8 or 9 employees with... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Service Operations; Training; Diversity; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry
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    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    cash held overseas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52017 Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents By: Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu, and Gary... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Web

    The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    the Power of Public Opinion The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion: Intro By the late 1800s, the steel industry in the United States had surpassed the capacity of Britain’s steel production. In 1901, through the merger... View Details
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    and Gary P. Pisano 2022 Tommy Pan Fang Technology & Operations Management, 2022 Placement: Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business Dissertation: Technological... View Details
    • June 2015
    • Article

    You Need an Innovation Strategy

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy
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