Daniel A. Levinthal

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Daniel A. Levinthal (* 1957 ) is an American management scientist.

His father Elliott Levinthal was a professor at Stanford University . Levinthal studied economics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1979 and received his doctorate in 1985 from Stanford University under James G. March . From 1983 he was an instructor and from 1985 Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and from 1989 Associate Professor and from 1998 Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania .

He published on organizational adjustments of companies, learning processes and industrial evolution.

He was visiting professor at the University of Pisa, the University of New South Wales and the Harvard Business School (Bower Fellow 1998/99).

He has been a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society since 2011 and of the Academy of Management since 2010. Levinthal has multiple honorary doctorates (University of Southern Denmark in Odense, University of Tilburg, Warwick University). He is one of the highly cited scientists ( Clarivate Citation Laureates 2018).

Fonts

• with Wesley M. Cohen: Absorptive capacity: A new perspective on learning and innovation, in: Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy, 2000, pp. 39-67
• with Wesley M. Cohen: Innovation and learning: the two faces of R & D, The Economic Journal, Volume 99, 1989, pp. 569-596
• with JG March: The myopia of learning, Strategic Management Journal, Volume 14, 1993, pp. 95–112 (Strategic Management Society Best Paper Prize 2002)
• Adaptation on rugged landscapes, Management Science, Volume 43, 1997, pp. 934-950
• with G. Gavetti: Looking forward and looking backward: Cognitive and experiential search, Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 45, 2000, pp. 113-137
• with JG March: A model of adaptive organizational search, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 2, 1981, pp. 307–333

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