Anita L. Tucker
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Marvin Bower Fellow
Dr. Anita L. Tucker is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in Technology and Operations Management and Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School. Professor Tucker received her master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Purdue University and her doctorate from Harvard University. She worked for General Mills and General Dynamics as an engineer before obtaining her doctorate. She was an Assistant Professor at Wharton for four years before joining the faculty of the Harvard Business School.
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Anita L. Tucker: "Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal Supply Chains" (with C. Folck, W.S. Heisler, and L. Janisse) was selected for publication in the 2012 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
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Anita L. Tucker: Finalist for the 2011 Best Industry Studies Paper Award from the Industry Studies Association and INFORMS for "Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units" with Ingrid Nembhard (Organization Science, 2011).
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Anita L. Tucker: Winner of the 2008 Most Outstanding Abstract at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting.
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Anita L. Tucker: Awarded a 2006 Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship.
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Anita L. Tucker: Named a 2006 Outstanding Reviewer by the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management.
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Anita L. Tucker: Winner of the 2004 Accenture Award for "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change" (with Amy Edmondson, California Management Review, winter 2003).
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Anita L. Tucker: Winner of the 2004 AcademyHealth Outstanding Dissertation Award for "Organizational Learning from Operational Failures" (Harvard University, 2003).
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Anita L. Tucker: Winner of the 2003 George S. Dively award for dissertation research for "Organizational Learning from Operational Failures" (Harvard University, 2003).
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Anita L. Tucker: Winner of the 2002 Best Student Paper from the Operations Management Division of the Academy of Management.