---
title: "C. Lanier Benkard"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "C. Lanier Benkard"
aliases: ["Lanier Benkard"]
first_seen: "2026-07-18T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["organizational forgetting","Lockheed L-1011 TriStar","learning curve","Linda Argote","experience depreciation"]
---


Stanford GSB economist whose 2000 *American Economic Review* paper, "Learning and Forgetting: The Dynamics of Aircraft Production," is the vault's sole primary source for a quantified organizational-forgetting depreciation rate — the estimate (δ≈0.96 monthly, ~61% of experience surviving a year on the Lockheed L-1011 program) that turns "learning can reverse" from a plausible mechanism into a specific, checkable number. His paper was read directly in 2026-07-24 verification, upgrading the vault's central claim from a Tier 3 secondary summary to his own words.

## References
- [[claim-organizational-forgetting-can-reverse-the-learning-curve]] · [[claim-benkard-2000-estimate-implies-far-less-forgetting-than-prior-studies]] · [[claim-benkard-2000-headline-depreciation-figure-is-the-spillover-adjusted-specification]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-linda-argote]] · [[entity-lockheed-l-1011-tristar]] · [[entity-organizational-forgetting]]
- Captures: 2026-07-11-hop-learning-curve-unidentified, 2026-07-24-does-benkard-2000-report-the-organizational-forgetting-depreciation