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January 2022
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The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry

By: Abhishek Nagaraj

How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the... View Details

Keywords: Public Data; Maps; Gold; Microeconomic Behavior; Economics; Data and Data Sets; Private Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Mining

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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

Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry

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

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Space: Public and Commercial Economics

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it is in the midst of a revolution. In this course, we will learn about this revolution and the companies, such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Axiom, Planet, and more. We will be joined by leaders in the... 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... View Details

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

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

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

College as a NASA Scholar. At HBS, she received the Morgan Stanley Fellowship and Dean's Award. Gupta (MBA 2013) Modi (MBA 2013) Public Service Fellowship The Gupta Modi Public Service Fellowship was established through the generosity of... View Details

29 Jan 2018
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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
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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

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

The growing 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 Warming... View Details

23 Sep 2022
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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

11 Oct 2023
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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... View Details

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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

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

20 Feb 2019
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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
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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

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

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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,... View Details

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