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| Gary Pisano
February 2021, Paper: "This article analyses how the geography and organization of pre- and production stages in GVC contribute to lead firms' innovation development. A novel approach in GVC studies is introduced based on transaction cost economics (TCE) and the innovation strategy's Modularity-Maturity matrix. The combination of these two perspectives allowed the conceptualization and assessment of two key dimensions in the generation of…
| Gary Pisano
May 6, 2020, Paper, "The ultimate solutions to the Covid-19 crisis may be big breakthroughs in building massive test and trace capacity and developing vaccines and drug remedies. But in the meantime, we should not ignore the potential cumulative impact of the many small things we already know how to do or might try that together could make a big dent in the current crisis. Big problems typically get tackled through a series of small solutions,…
| Gary Pisano
Getting to Yes, And… | Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School – “Creative Construction”. Gary Pisano, June 25, 2019, Audio, "Kelly talks to Gary Pisano about his new book Creative Construction that looks at the DNA of sustained innovation." Link
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Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959-2015. Gary Pisano, May 16, 2019, Paper, "Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational “fitness” within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and theory of business strategy. Despite both its…
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Innovation, competition and sectoral evolution: an introduction to the special section on Industrial Dynamics. Gary Pisano, March 29, 2019, Paper, "This paper is the introduction to the ICC special section on Industrial Dynamics. Industrial dynamics has a venerable heritage in economics and after a long dormant period, it has witnessed a major resurgence beginning in the early 1980s. The current Special Section takes stock of the progress along…
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How Big Companies Can Innovate Like Small Startups. Gary Pisano, January 30, 2019, Audio, "Gary Pisano, professor of business administration at Harvard, rejects the narrative that only scrappy startups are nimble enough to innovate. He believes large, established firms can adapt and evolve, but they have to go about it differently than their small-sized competitors."…
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Knowledge integrators and the survival of manufacturing clusters. Gary Pisano, June 26, 2018, Paper, "Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing clusters. While some of them dwindled, others proved resilient. Contributing to the recent literature on co-located clusters and clusters' linkages, we focus on the impact of lead firms’ strategies on the competitiveness…