Overview
Scott Rockart earned an MBA in 1996 from MIT and a PhD in 2001 from MIT in behavioral and policy sciences and management science. He spent two years as an assistant professor at London Business School (2000-2002) and then was an assistant professor at Fuqua from 2002-2010. He was also an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2010 – 2016. Scott rejoined Fuqua in 2017 as an associate professor of the practice in the strategy area. He is the Eads Associate Professor of the Practice in Energy Finance in Fuqua and Faculty Fellow in the Energy Initiative
Scott’s scholarly work is focused on policies for repeated decision making (e.g., decisions about pricing, investment, research, and product offerings). His research has appeared in Management Science, System Dynamics Review, and Strategic Management Journal. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science.
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Recent Publications
Journal Article
Organization Science
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January 1, 2019
Organizations face a key challenge in dynamic environments: the contexts in which experience is gained will not always match the contexts in which experience will be applied. This challenge has been investigated largely in terms of progressive environmenta ...
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January 1, 2018
Free riding occurs when individuals or organizations enjoy the benefits of a good without contributing to its provision, or when they understate the benefits they derive from a good in order to reduce their contributions to providing the good. The free rid ...
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Strategic Management Journal
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January 1, 2015
This paper examines differences in the rate and potential of firms' capability development trajectories. Capability development trajectories are the paths over which firms' capabilities change with experience and other activities. While prior research focu ...
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Education, Training & Certifications
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
2001
Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1996
M.B.A.