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Gi­ac­omo Marches­ini

Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Subjects
Strategy Innovation Biotechnology Quantitative methods

Primary research areas

In­nov­a­tion Strategy
I ex­plore how firms design in­nov­a­tion strategies and nav­ig­ate or­gan­iz­a­tion­al search pro­cesses—es­pe­cially after set­backs—to identi­fy break­through dis­cov­er­ies
Man­aging Sci­ence and Sci­entif­ic Dis­cov­er­ies
I study how firms man­age sci­entif­ic re­search and dis­cov­ery pro­cesses, with a par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on the phar­ma­ceut­ic­al in­dustry.
So­cial Dy­nam­ics and Status
I study the in­flu­ence of so­cial dy­nam­ics, polit­ics, and status on pro­ductiv­ity, re­source pro­vi­sion, and in­nov­a­tion out­comes.

Search­ing for in­ter­est­ing an­swers to rel­ev­ant ques­tions

I study how organizations search, decide, and discover at the intersection of innovation, organizational search, cognition, and social dynamics—especially politics and status hierarchies. My goal is to explain why some ideas become breakthroughs while others stall, and how firms can design discovery processes that translate scientific knowledge—often in pharmaceuticals—into innovations that improve lives. 

Publications

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March 2024

Reproducibility in Management Science

Miloš Fišar

Ben Greiner

Christoph Huber

Elena Katok

Ali I. Ozkes

The Management Science Repoducibility Collaboration null

Tom Grad, Associate Professor

Gi­a­co­mo Mar­che­si­ni, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Mi­chel Van der Borgh, Professor

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2024

Turning the Tide

Persistent Search After Technological Failures

Gi­a­co­mo Mar­che­si­ni, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

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June 2023

On the Status Shocks of Tournament Rituals

How Ritual Enactment Affects Productivity, Input Provision, and Performance

Massimo Maoret

Gi­a­co­mo Mar­che­si­ni, Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Gokhan Ertug
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Outside activities

In­de­pend­ent In­nov­a­tion Strategy Con­sult­ant , 2024 -

Ad­vising on in­nov­a­tion strategy and eval­u­at­ing R&D/pat­ent port­fo­li­os and pipelines.