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August 2002
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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.... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation

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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 View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

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How to Be Bold: The Surprising Science of Everyday Courage

By: Ranjay Gulati

What leads people to speak truth to power, share bold new ideas, or put their lives on the line? Most of us chalk it up to personality, presuming that our heroes are naturally fearless. But what if courage isn’t simply a matter of personality? What if it’s something... View Details

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26 Jul 2023
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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... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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 View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

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... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

reporting. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-404 Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A) The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—formally part of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

II, hundreds of billions of federal dollars flowed through agencies like the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA to pay for the basic and applied research that spawned the... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

After-action reviews often neglect to address the multiple factors contributing to large-scale organizational failures. How Should Organizations Learn From Failure? Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science After successive failures to land a spacecraft on Mars in... View Details

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

collection of startup aerospace engineering companies that were intent on disrupting the American space sector with new technologies, management approaches, and competitive pressure. NASA hoped to leverage New Space to outsource its... View Details

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

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... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

R. Lakhani on the keys to managing distributed innovation. What Does Nasa's "faster, Better, Cheaper" Teach About Innovation? Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science Do the successful Mars missions mean NASA again has the right... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

the key tenets and advantages of external innovation is that you have access to multiple parallel approaches to solve the same problem. For example, during the development of the Apollo program, NASA would often create twin projects with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

Trumka, President, AFL-CIO; and Michael Ward (HBS MBA '76), CEO, CSX. From government, the participant list included Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator; Anthony Foxx, US Secretary of Transportation; Jane Garvey, former head of the Federal... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

Stereotype That Holds Women Back When 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: iStockphoto/XH4D View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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