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Dynamic Capabilities Institute

The faculty who shaped strategy now teach it — live.

An institute founded on David Teece’s dynamic capabilities thesis: knowledge is abundant, judgment is scarce. Faculty are source-faithful AI twins of named scholars — active, not archived, each supervised by a named human faculty-of-record.

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Faculty

The faculty are the thesis, demonstrated.

Three named scholars. Three active AI twins, each scoped to their source work. Each interaction supervised by a human faculty-of-record.

David J. Teece

Executive Chairman · Faculty of Record

Active AI twin — available in office hours

The dynamic capabilities framework — sensing, seizing, transforming — is his. So is the analysis of why invention without a commercialization strategy creates no value. His twin teaches the diagnostic spine of every program and is available between modules.

  • Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management (Oxford, 2009)
  • “Profiting from Innovation” (Research Policy, 1986)
  • Asset orchestration · co-specialized assets · appropriability

Charles A. O’Reilly III

Faculty · Organizational Ambidexterity

Active AI twin — available in office hours

He supplies the organizational half of the argument: the conditions under which a firm can run today’s business and build tomorrow’s at the same time. His twin pairs the congruence model with the dynamic-capabilities diagnosis.

  • Lead and Disrupt (2016, 2021)
  • Originator of organizational ambidexterity
  • The congruence model of organizational alignment

Richard P. Rumelt

Faculty · Strategy Kernel

Active AI twin — available in office hours

He supplies the output format. Where the diagnosis ends, the strategy kernel begins: name the critical challenge, set a guiding policy that rules out most options, and choose coherent actions that reinforce one another. Every learner leaves with one for their own situation.

  • Good Strategy / Bad Strategy (2011)
  • The Crux (2022)
  • The strategy kernel: diagnosis · guiding policy · coherent action
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Named scholars
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Cohort cap
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Human-supervised

Programs

Four ways to practice judgment.

Each program is a diagnostic instrument, not a content library. Participants leave with a worked strategy kernel for their own organization.

Flagship program

Dynamic Capabilities for Strategic Leaders

The flagship certificate. Ten modules on sensing, seizing, and transforming — and on building the ambidextrous organization that can do all three.

Self-paced · Cohort options · 10 modules · Executive

Faculty: David Teece · Charles O’Reilly

Program

Judgment Under Deep Uncertainty

When the odds cannot be known, efficiency is not enough. A program on deciding well under genuine — Knightian — uncertainty.

Self-paced · 8 modules · Executive

Faculty: David Teece · Charles O’Reilly · Richard Rumelt

Program

Profiting From Innovation

Invention creates no value without a strategy to capture it. Appropriability, complementary assets, and a one-page strategy kernel for your own innovation.

Self-paced · 7 modules · Executive

Faculty: David Teece · Charles O’Reilly · Richard Rumelt

Program

Innovation Ecosystems: The Entrepreneurial Organization

Value is co-created across ecosystems, not captured alone. Designing the entrepreneurial organization that can orchestrate them.

Self-paced · 8 modules · Executive

Faculty: David Teece · Charles O’Reilly

Interactive pedagogy

Human-supervised. Source-faithful. A live personal coach, not an artificial chatbot.

How we teach

A live personal coach — not an artificial chatbot.

The faculty twin sees your engagement. It asks, challenges, and adapts — not as a search engine returning stored answers, but as a mentor who has read your stated context.

Every interaction is scoped to the source work of the named scholar. Every reflection you write is reviewed by a human faculty-of-record. You leave with demonstrable judgment, not a completion badge.

The twin asks you one back. It cites your sector context. It holds you to the standard of the source work.From the Interactive Pedagogy specification
AI Instructor

You are interacting with an AI instructor.

The instructor in this experience is an AI digital twin — not a human in real time. The course curriculum is authored and supervised by a named human PhD faculty-of-record.

The voice, video, text, and feedback you see and hear from the instructor in this program are generated by our AI. You are not speaking with a real person in real time.

The underlying course curriculum, learning objectives, rubrics, and grading standards are authored and supervised by a named human PhD faculty-of-record. Your Certificate of Completion is issued under their supervision.

Our AI may produce inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated information. Treat the instructor’s answers as a starting point for your own thinking, not as professional legal, medical, financial, tax, or investment advice.

Conversations with the AI instructor and your study-buddy AI are recorded, transcribed, and may be reviewed by the human faculty-of-record for quality assurance and academic supervision. See the program privacy notice for details.

Faculty-of-record: Prof. David Teece, PhD, Strategy

  • The instructor is AI — not a human in real time.
  • Curriculum and grading are supervised by a named human PhD faculty-of-record.
  • AI responses may be wrong; they are not professional advice.
  • Sessions are recorded and may be reviewed for quality and supervision.
  • You can request a human faculty-of-record review of any AI-generated feedback.

Last reviewed 2026-04-25. Disclosed pursuant to FTC Act §5, FTC Endorsement Guides §255.1, FTC Operation AI Comply (2024).

The Vision

Knowledge is abundant. Judgment is scarce.

David Teece and Sohvi Heaton’s Dynamic Universities argues that institutions — like the firms they study — must themselves sense emerging shifts, seize the new, and reconfigure their structures before the old model forecloses the new one.

The Institute exists to practice this argument, not merely to discuss it. Its faculty model is a demonstration of the thesis: a reconfigured delivery mechanism built on existing scholarship, operating at a speed and specificity that the legacy lecture format cannot match.

Evolutionary fitness, not efficiency, determines which institutions survive the current transition.— David J. Teece & Sohvi Heaton, Dynamic Universities (2023)

Next cohort

Applications for the autumn cohort close 12 September 2026. Cohort cap: 24 participants.

Apply

The autumn cohort opens 1 August 2026.

24 places. Applications reviewed in the order received. No admission without a brief admissions conversation.

Your details are used only for this request — no mailing list.