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Frank Mycroft
For Frank Mycroft, business management really is rocket science. A self-confessed Star Trek fan, Frank fell in love with "the final frontier" early in life and fulfilled his obsession with not one, but two advanced degrees from... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
be when the politics are working.” Begun in 2009, CCDev has allowed companies like Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX to leverage NASA’s funding and expertise in their own rocket and spacecraft development. The multi-phase initiative has... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry
his success last year, when Friendly’s owner Sun Capital Partners put him in charge of the Johnny Rockets retro burger-and-shakes chain. Maguire said Shaich kept the Panera team laser-focused on three goals: hiring great people, offering... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
except for one thing: they wanted a multi-million-dollar up-front payment. If you learn one thing at SpaceX it’s you don’t buy expensive things unless you absolutely have to. In fact, overpriced rocket launches are the reason the company... View Details
- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
except for one thing: they wanted a multi-million-dollar up-front payment. If you learn one thing at SpaceX it’s you don’t buy expensive things unless you absolutely have to. In fact, overpriced rocket launches are the reason the company... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
the enthusiasm of a baseball fan at an All-Star game. "Qualified women run the gamut," she says. "I can tell you about a 37-year-old rocket scientist who is going to join a board. She is one of the most poised, mature people I've ever... View Details
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Marc Wilson
Like lots of young people in the U.S., Marc Wilson had dreams of space travel "inspired by comic books and movies like Star Wars." And like many of them, Marc wondered, "Why isn’t that possible?" But unlike most of them, Marc did, in fact, become a... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
something well, you’re not just looking at a Kuwaiti investor or a regional investor—it’s a global scene.” —Faisal Al-Hamad (MBA 2005), discussing the $170 million acquisition of Kuwaiti online food delivery service Talabat by Germany’s View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
While his friends have retired, 79-year-old Merle Bushkin (AB 1956, MBA 1960), a laid-back guy with the energy of a man half his age, is rocketing full speed into the challenges of entrepreneurship—launching a startup company offering a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details
- 07 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Meet the Aerospace & Defense Club
propulsion engineer leading rocket engine testing to support their lunar lander program. Ben Buchheim-Jurisson: bbuchheimjurisson@mba2025.hbs.edu Ben is a JD/MBA candidate with interests in defense tech, space, and industrials. Prior to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
percent of American households owned equities in some form or another. By 2002, the figure for households had rocketed to 49.5 percent. Among single people in 1983, 42 percent held equities, while in 2002, 84 percent did. "This was a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
value, to promise so much more good than harm. Such is the sobering message about the high stakes of technology decision-making that rings in the ears of tomorrow’s managers as they leave the classroom. Rocket Science and Socrates Taking... View Details
- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success
they can be the rocket ships for social mobility and potential that we believe they are.” The program, created in partnership with students, Student Academic Services, faculty, Admissions, and Financial Aid, reflects HBS's commitment to... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Wayfair
rocket ship with constant new challenges and opportunities to make an impact as our business scales. We’re data-driven and transparent, and we move quickly to empower smart people to take ownership to drive action. There really is no cap... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
and retain some of their knowledge. It's not rocket science." Among more specific proposals, Sharon Richmond suggests an antidote to the Violette objection by suggesting that "Rather than relying only on private, one-to-one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
editing in biotech, 3D printing has allowed for rapid prototyping for hardware startups, and reusable rockets have brought down the cost to build and launch a small satellite to under a million dollars. “And we often see advances in one... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
liquid hydrogen rocket engine that was subsequently used in many of the major space exploration programs, and Fern taught in the first public high school in Palm Beach County to be integrated.” One of the goals the couple had when they... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman