Contact Information
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519-661-3244
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Richard Ivey Building 3311
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
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