Bio
Giovanni Gavetti teaches the core course Competitive & Corporate Strategy at Tuck. His research explores the cognitive foundations of 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
Editorial positions
- Editorial Boards
European Management Review, 2007–present
Industrial and Corporate Change, 2005–present,
Journal of Management and Governance, 2000–07
Organization Science, 2006–08
Strategic Management Journal, 2007–11 - Senior Editor
Strategy Science, 2013–present
Organization Science, 2012–present - Ad Hoc Reviewer
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
Administrative Science Quarterly
Industrial and Corporate Change
Journal of Economics and Management
Journal of Management and Governance Management Science
Organization Science
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