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Richard Ivey Building 3311
Associate Professor, Organizational Behaviour
EMBA Program Faculty Director
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.