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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
The Commercial Space Age Is Here
Alan D. MacCormack
Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details
Michael Montelongo
Michael Montelongo is a Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Managing Service Operations in the MBA elective curriculum that shows how to effectively design, manage, and improve... View Details
Richard F. Meyer
Richard F. Meyer is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Professor Meyer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and spent the first ten years of his career in the Management Services Division of Arthur D. Little, Inc., serving as a...
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- August 2002
- Article
Creativity Under the Gun
By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way....
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Creativity;
Innovation and Invention;
Time Management;
Working Conditions;
Performance Evaluation
Amabile, Teresa, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer. "Creativity Under the Gun." Special Issue on The Innovative Enterprise: Turning Ideas into Profits. Harvard Business Review 80, no. 8 (August 2002): 52–61.
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: HBSWK
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- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment Feedback or ideas to...
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by Rachel Layne
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
was head of business development at LM Capital Group. She began her career as an analyst with Goldman Sachs and went on to various roles at companies such as Lyxor Asset Management, Progress Investment Management, and Williams Capital Group. She earned a BS from...
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- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
possible.” Duncan brought experience with long space ights to help solve concerns related to the miners’ physical and psychological survival in their small quarters. NASA engineers played a crucial role in the design of the escape capsule...
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- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Everest, several climbers, including two of the world's most experienced professionals, died in part because junior team members didn't speak up when their expert leaders ignored their own core operating principles surrounding safety. In 2003, View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- Web
Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
region for wheat moves further north each year in the U.S., Europe, and Russia [9]. Storms, heat, and drought also impact crop yields and prices. Visualizing Climate Change Effects 1880-2019 NASA Global Warming Global WarmingGlobal...
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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
driven it down to about $2,000, something like a 95 percent decline in the cost of sending that kilogram into space. Well, that’s almost beyond belief. How could you possibly have done that after more than 50 years of NASA...
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- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/SimonSkafar
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by Lane Lambert
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in...
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- Portrait Project
Milly Wang
I wanted to be an astronaut. The big unknowns of space fascinated me. I wanted to explore worlds beyond Earth – discover their secrets, advance humanity, and leave behind a legacy amongst the stars. I read all the astrophysics books in the school library, went to View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
ground, investors could pull funding for a variety of reasons—not the least of which is the inconsistent pace with which human space travel has progressed following the shuttering of the Space Shuttle program by NASA in 2011. Can...
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- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009, though, while at an event at NASA...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
the information age. The jobs of the CTO and CIO are and will be of unparalleled importance in the decades ahead. Max Hopper of American Airlines and Paul Strassmann of Kraft and NASA are not the last of a dying breed of dinosaurs, but...
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by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
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HBS - The year in Review
Nutrition Terry Virts GMP 11, 2011 Astronaut & NASA veteran of two spaceflights Deborah Winshel MBA 1985 Managing Director & Global Head of Social Impact, BlackRock, Inc. More on Alumni Achievement Awards IN MEMORIAM Doris Bogues,...
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- 28 Apr 2021
- News
Michael Collins, ‘Third Man’ of the Moon Landing, Dies at 90
Courtesy NASA Courtesy NASA Michael Collins (AMP 69, 1974), pilot of the historic 1969 Apollo 11 voyage, died this week in Florida. Collins played a critical support role on that mission as his crewmates...
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