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  • 11 May 2016
  • News

Who Owns Space?

  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Oceanbulk-Maritime-S-A---/an/914416-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-044 Houston We Have A Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A) Jeff Davis, director of Space Life Sciences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
  • 04 Feb 2016
  • News

The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

  • May 2018
  • Exercise

Data Visualization & Communication Exercise

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This exercise uses the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster to explore the relationship between data visualization, effective communication, and decision-making. Students review and analyze excerpts from the 13 charts engineers presented to NASA executives the night before... View Details
Keywords: Visualization; Data; Analytics and Data Science; Communication; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Making; Analysis
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  • 12 Nov 2013
  • News

Cities, startups tap the wisdom of crowds for sustainability

  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Video

The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission

  • Article

Space, the Final Economic Frontier

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and U.S. policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. NASA garnered more than 0.7% of GDP in the mid-1960s but is only around 0.1% of GDP... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Economics; Private Sector; Aerospace Industry
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  • 2016
  • Chapter

Innovation Experiments: Researching Technical Advance, Knowledge Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
This paper discusses several challenges in designing field experiments to better understand how organizational and institutional design shapes innovation outcomes and the production of knowledge. We proceed to describe the field experimental research program carried... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research; Knowledge; Innovation and Invention
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  • Fall 2013
  • Article

Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas

By: Andrew King and Karim R. Lakhani
Which parts of your innovation processes should you open up to the wider world? To reap the benefits of open innovation, executives must understand what to open, how to open it, and how to manage the resulting problems. According to authors Andrew King of Dartmouth... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • March 2022 (Revised March 2023)
  • Case

Commercial Space Stations, Chickens and Eggs, and Demand for Activity in Low-Earth Orbit

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Brendan L. Rosseau
With the International Space Station set to retire in January 2031, NASA has made clear its desire to transition to commercially-led space stations in low-earth orbit (LEO). But the history of commercial station attempts has been fraught, characterized by a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Opportunities; Business Model; Travel Industry; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry
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    Jacqueline Ng Lane

    Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details

    • 02 Sep 2019
    • News

    Work from anywhere model works

    • April 2017 (Revised July 2017)
    • Case

    ISRO: Explore Space or Exploit CubeSats?

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Karim Lakhani and Rachna Tahilyani
    The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) achieved global acclaim by launching successful missions to the moon and Mars at a fraction of the cost of prior Western missions. It is now faced with an important strategic dilemma—whether to continue exploring deep space... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Aerospace Industry; India
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    • 2019
    • Article

    Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'

    By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani
    This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Culture Change; Open Innovation; Center Of Excellence; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Change Management
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    • October 2016
    • Case

    Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Sarah Mehta
    The case is used to illustrate the place of ‘Purpose’ versus financial risk and returns in a founder’s objectives. It also addresses personal risk profile of different founders, and when paired with the Risk Tolerance Exercise, it enables evaluating one’s own appetite... View Details
    Keywords: Electric Vehicle; Solar Power; Vision; Trade-offs; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Risk and Uncertainty; Entrepreneurship; Failure; United States; North America
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      Karim R. Lakhani

      Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; communications; computer; health care; high technology; information technology industry; internet; pharmaceuticals; software; video games

        The Final Economic Frontier

        After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and US policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. The shift from public to private priorities in space is especially significant because... View Details

        • 12 Feb 2021
        • News

        The Commercial Space Age Is Here

        • February 12, 2021
        • Article

        The Commercial Space Age Is Here

        By: Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
        In May of 2020, SpaceX made history as the first private company to send humans into space. This marks not only a tremendous technological achievement, but also the first indication that an entirely new “space-for-space” industry—that is, goods and services designed to... View Details
        Keywords: Space Economy; New Markets; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Entrepreneurship; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry
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