Gary Pisano

Gary Pisano is a strategy and innovation scholar and professor emeritus at Harvard Business School. His research spans how organizations learn, develop capabilities, innovate, and compete.

Pisano coauthored the 1997 article “Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management” with David J. Teece and Amy Shuen. Its account of distinctive processes, firm-specific assets, and development paths helps explain why a competitive strength cannot be assessed in isolation. What a firm can do depends in part on how its people and assets are coordinated and on what it has learned to do over time. For the article’s thesis, Pisano’s contribution supports examining the organizational processes behind a claimed advantage—not merely naming a valued skill or asset.