His work focuses on understanding the factors that contribute to the successful implementation, execution, and design of business processes, particularly those in new product development. Professor Repenning has received several awards for his work, including best paper recognition from both the California Management Review and the Journal of Product Innovation Management. In 2003 he received the International System Dynamics Society’s Jay Wright Forrester award, which recognizes the best work in the field in the previous five years. His current work focuses on developing new methods for managing resources in multi-project development environments and the creation of management flight simulators as tools for improving organizational performance.