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Scott F Rockart

Eads Professor of the Practice in Energy Finance
Fuqua School of Business
Box 90120, Durham, NC 27708-0120
A204 Fuqua Sch of Bus, Durham, NC 27708

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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Eads Professor of the Practice in Energy Finance · 2022 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Associate Professor of the Practice · 2017 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Faculty Fellow in the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability · 2022 - Present Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, University Institutes and Centers

Recent Publications


Learning in cycles

Journal Article Organization Science · 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 ... Full text Cite

The rate and potential of capability development trajectories

Journal Article Strategic Management Journal · 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 ... Full text Cite

Interdependency, competition, and industry dynamics

Journal Article · December 1, 2011 Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2001 Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1996 M.B.A.