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Fernando Olivera

Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour

EMBA Program Faculty Director

Fernando Olivera

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Expertise

  • Conflict Resolution
  • Learning from Errors
  • Candour
  • Organizational Learning and Memory

Research Publications

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Fernando Olivera is an Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Ivey Business School and faculty director of Ivey’s Executive MBA Program. He joined the Ivey Faculty in 1998. He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in Industrial Administration from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.  He held the Troost Professorship in Leadership from 2019-2024.

Olivera's primary research interests are in learning processes in organizations, including organizational memory and forgetting, group and individual learning, learning from errors, and communicating with candour. His work has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Small Group Research, the Journal of Management Studies, the Research on Managing Groups and Teams book series, and other journals. He has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and has presented his work at various academic conferences, including the Academy of Management Annual Meetings, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the INGRoup Conference.

Teaching

  • Interpersonal Negotiations, EMBA and AMBA Programs

Education

  • PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
  • MS, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS, ITESM

Recent Refereed Articles

  • Mariano, S.; Casey, A.; Olivera, F., 2020, "Organizational forgetting Part II: a review of the literature and future research directions", The Learning Organization, July 27(5): 417 - 427.
  • Mariano, S.; Casey, A.; Olivera, F., 2020, "Organizational forgetting Part I: a review of the literature and future research directions", Learning Organization, May 27(3): 185 - 209.
  • Mariano, S.; Casey, A.; Olivera, F., 2018, "Managers and Organizational Forgetting: A Synthesis", The Learning Organization: the international journal of knowledge and organizational learning management, June 25(3): 169 - 179.
  • Compeau, D. R.; Olivera, F., 2014, "From theory light’ to theorizing: a reaction to Avison and Malaurent", Journal of Information Technology, December 29(4): 346 - 349.
  • Casey, A. J.; Olivera, F., 2011, "Reflections on Organizational Memory and Forgetting", Journal of Management Inquiry, August 20(3): 305 - 310.
  • Purdy, N.; Laschinger, H.; Finegan, J.; Kerr, M.; Olivera, F., 2010, "Effects of work environments on nurse and patient outcomes", Journal of Nursing Management, November 18(8): 901 - 913.
  • Olivera, F.; Goodman, P.; Tan, S. L., 2008, "Contribution Behaviors in Distributed Environments", MIS Quarterly, March 32(1): 23 - 42.
  • Pomi, A.; Olivera, F., 2006, "Context-sensitive autoassociative memories as expert systems in medical diagnosis", BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, November 6
  • Zhao, N. B.; Olivera, F., 2006, "Error Reporting in Organizations", Academy of Management Review, November 31(4): 1012 - 1030.
  • Olivera, F.; Straus, S., 2004, "Group-to-Individual Transfer of Learning: Cognitive and Social Factors", Small Group Research, December 35(4): 445 - 465.
  • Vince, R.; Suttcliffe, K.; Olivera, F., 2002, "Organizational Learning: New Directions", British Journal of Management, January 13(2): 1 - 6.
  • Olivera, F., 2000, "Memory systems in organizations: An empirical investigation of mechanisms of knowledge collection, storage and access", Journal of Management Studies, January 37(6): 811 - 832.

For more publications please see our Research Database

Experience

  • Teaching and Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Project Director, ITESM
  • Development Director, TELMEX

Research/Course Development

  • Errors and Error Reporting
  • Candour in Organizations
  • Organizational Memory and Forgetting
  • Group-to-Individual Transfer of Learning
  • Negotiations and Conflict Resolution

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