Giovanni Gavetti

Giovanni Gavetti teaches the core course Competitive & Corporate Strategy at Tuck. His research explores the cognitive foundations of strategy.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Cognition, evolutionary theory, organizational learning, strategic change, strategy

Professional Activities

Academic positions

• Professor (with tenure), Tuck School of Business, 2019–present
• Associate Professor (with tenure), Tuck School of Business, 2012–19
• Associate Professor, 2006–12, Assistant Professor, 2000–06, Harvard Business School
• Instructor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1997–98
• Lecturer, 1994–05, Teaching Associate, 1993–04, Research Fellow, 1993–05, Bocconi University, Milan

AWARDS

• Recipient of the 2015 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize for the paper: “Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging.”
• Winner, 2014 Tuck Teaching Excellence Award

WORKING PAPERS

• With C. Helfat and L. Marengo, “Shaping, Searching, and Endogenous Selection: The Quest for Superior Performance”
• With M. Warglien, “Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making”
• “Evolutionary Theory Revisited: Cognition, Hierarchy, and Capabilities”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• With A. Menon, "Evolution Cum Agency: Toward a Model of Strategic Foresight," Strategy Science, forthcoming
• With M. Warglein, "A Model of Collective Interpretation," Organization Science, 26, 2015
• "Representing is Not the Same Thing as Changing Organizations: Cyert and March Versus Simon," Journal of Management Inquiry, 24, 2015
• With W. Ocasio, Cognition and Strategy, in the "Advances in Strategic Management" book series, Vol. 32, Emerald Group Publishing, 2015
• With W. Ocasio, Introduction, Cognition and Strategy, in the "Advances in Strategic Management" book series, Vol. 32, Emerald Group Publishing, 2015
• With M. Warglien, "A Model of Collective Interpretation," Organization Science, 26(5), 2015
• With H. Greve, D. Levinthal, and W. Ocasio, "The Behavioral Theory of the Firm: Assessment and Prospects," Academy of Management Annals, 2012
• "Toward a Behavioral Theory of Strategy," Organization Science, 23, January/February 2012
• "The New Psychology of Strategic Leadership," Harvard Business Review, 89(7–8), July–August 2011
• With D. Levinthal and W. Ocasio, "Neo-Carnegie: The School's Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the Future," Organization Science, 18(3), May–June 2007
• With J.W. Rivkin, "On the Origin of Strategy: Action and Cognition Over Time," Organization Science, 18(3), May–June 2007
• "Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities’ Development," Organization Science, 16(6), November–December 2005
• With D. Levinthal and J.W. Rivkin, "Strategy-Making in Novel and Complex Worlds: The Power of Analogy," Strategic Management Journal, 26(8), August 2005
• With J.W. Rivkin, "How Strategists Really Think: Tapping the Power of Analogy," Harvard Business Review, 83(4), April 2005
• With D. Levinthal, "The Strategy Field from the Perspective of Management Science: Divergent Strands and Possible Integration," Management Science, 50, October 2004
• With M. Tripsas, "Capabilities, Cognition and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging," Strategic Management Journal, 21, October–November, 2000
• With D. Levinthal, "Looking Forward and Looking Backward: Cognitive and Experiential Search," Administrative Science Quarterly, 45, March 2000