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- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
of a requirements interpretation and making sure, again, that the astronauts are safe. But that provider is providing the service to NASA to get them from the launch pad to the International Space Station. So those roles have changed.... View Details
- 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
- 08 Jan 2025
- News
Mapping Pain Points at the IRS
federal government. NASA sends people to space; the Federal Aviation Administration keeps air travel safe; the Department of Defense protects our country; the National Park Service cares for our natural and cultural resources—things we... View Details
- 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
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
work at NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation that launches contests for NASA and the federal government at scale. NASA has completed over 350 crowdsourcing projects, many with the... View Details
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Brittany Williams
Every summer from 7th grade through her senior year in high school, Brittany Williams went to science camp. “I was the kid who went to the NASA space camp—for fun!” Brittany enrolled at the University of Virginia to study aerospace... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started... View Details
- 01 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs
and told me she’d noticed I seemed to be much more passionate about my AP physics course than I was about biology,” Shodiya said. “She told me her friend over at the NASA Goddard (Space Flight) Center had let her know about an internship... 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
- Web
Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement
Science Foundation, BARDA, DARPA, and NASA all contributing. The company has supplemented this with venture capital financing. Vaxess is working closely with all of these funders to achieve the scale necessary to reimagine both the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
companies' presentations and tours were outstanding, he says, those of Silicon Graphics, 3Com, and Adaptec were particularly well-received, as was a small gathering with Enterprise Director Doug Hawkins of the NASA Ames Technology Center.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 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
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
Photos by Jeff Moore Conventional wisdom says expertise gained through years of experience is the key to business success. Conventional wisdom has never met Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975). Freeman’s unfettered approach to life—“Well, I’ll give that a shot”—has taken him... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 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
- 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
- 05 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology
currently-experienced world. The next day she introduced me to Justin Oliveria and Dan Nevius, two ECs that had worked at NASA and Planetary Resources. They had started building a space technology company, Analytical Space, that is... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
the NASA Tournament Laboratory at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He is on the Board of Directors of Mozilla Corporation and several AI-based startups. Sharing their research on hundreds of enterprises in the U.S.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Administration, is coeditor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and has published cases on organizations that practice crowdsourcing, including Data.gov, TopCoder, OpenIDEO, Google, Threadless, and Wikipedia. He serves as principal investigator of the... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
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