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  • January 2019 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Analytical Space: The Next Frontier?

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Lane
With one satellite aloft and in the midst of beta testing in late 2018, Analytical Space founders Justin Oliveira and Dan Nevius turned to critical questions about the pioneering startup’s go-to-market, pricing, and business development strategy. Analytical Space aimed... View Details
Keywords: Pricing Decisions; Demand Validation; Revenue Model; Business Development; Space Tech; Satellites; Earth Observation; Remote Sensing; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Finance; Selection and Staffing; Business Strategy; Aerospace Industry
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  • January 2022
  • Case

Tomorrow.io Goes To Space

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Abhishek Nagaraj and James Barnett
This case study explores the evolution of Tomorrow.io, a weather forecasting technology company, as it pivoted toward building and launching space-based weather radar satellites. This strategic shift was driven by the company's ambition to overcome data limitations in... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Performance; Information Technology; Aerospace Industry
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  • January 2021
  • Article

Institutional-Political Scenarios for Anthropocene Society

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
Natural scientists have proposed that humankind has entered a new geologic epoch. Termed the “Anthropocene,” this new reality revolves around the central role of human activity in multiple Earth ecosystems. That challenge requires a rethinking of social science... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Change; Institutional Theory; Natural Environment; Society; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 29 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as genuine self-regulation. Many observers doubt that accelerated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

The Imposter Among Us

the wheel of a Rolls-Royce he’d shipped across the Atlantic for the occasion. Wallner was stunned. “I thought, ‘Why on earth would you bring a bloody motor car here?’ ” In the friendship that followed, Wallner learned that Gaines-Cooper... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

isn't what we observe [that] is getting in the way of great leadership. We're finding that if we can change the orientation, progress can be made.” We’ve been teaching people to look in the mirror, but I want to change the mirror to a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 10 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

boost of career momentum." He paused, then gave me a wink as he thought of just the right way to illustrate his point. "You're too young to remember this," he began, "but in the early 1970s the Apollo 13 spacecraft was midway between View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

problems, taking money from friends and family may send a negative signal about the startup's prospects, especially if the startup is beyond the early launching stage. One serial entrepreneur observed that founders who fail to raise... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Feedback

March 2016 Early Observers Re: The New Space Race A nice overview, but what was neglected was the important contribution of earth observation (remote sensing) technology and... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2015
  • News

“A Unique Leadership Experience”

program, led the 30-minute discussion, posing executives’ questions about leadership and the business opportunities of commercial space travel—and about everyday life in space. Virts, who posts images of the earth on Instagram and Twitter... View Details
Keywords: April White; NASA
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

The New Space Race

search for mineable asteroids. While their first few spacecraft will be used to test these capabilities, they will also observe Earth and collect data—ranging from oil and gas exploration to crop growth—to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program, this meant no more funding for big, complex, billion-plus dollar missions like Viking (which succeeded in the 1970s) or Mars... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

INK: Out of Exile

through the purgatory of refugee status, they found asylum in Oklahoma. Nayeri went on to earn a BA at Princeton, an MBA and MEd at Harvard, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The author of two previous novels (Refuge and A Teaspoon of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 27 Feb 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

sustainability company. Pixxel, with its focus on earth observation technology, stands at the intersection of climate and space exploration. Despite skepticism regarding its mission-driven vision business... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models.... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • Web

Art Nature Business

United States and Mexico. Cabeza de Baca—whose ancestry is Spanish, Mexican, Apache, and Zuni—describes his paintings and process: "Last time I was in New Mexico the idea of working in abstract circular planes came to me. The landscape is so vast there and... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

indicating that learning is unlikely to account for the observed shifts in recommendations. We discuss implications for both future research and practice. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507874... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne