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- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
unbelievable job. But what’s interesting is that the underlying attitudes are not that different—a lot of experimentation—from those that we’ve seen in the NASA and SpaceX ecosystem in the last decade but with probably a fraction of the...
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- 22 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!
carved out a product manager or adjacent role for me to step into. I ended up joining Starlink at SpaceX, where I had a terrific summer working on the Growth team in LA - and even overlapped with alum and now SpaceX employee Kate Sweeney...
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- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The...
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- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
ones that I like is SpaceX, because again, in experimentalism you tend to think: can’t be done in heavy industry. Space is the heaviest industry. What SpaceX has done is remarkable. In the course of only 20 years, they’ve taken NASA’s...
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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
only player, but it should try to become the first player that comes to mind when customers, analysts, or the media think about the new market category. McDonald points to recent examples such as SpaceX in commercial space flight and...
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Madison Whitt
from large tech companies like SpaceX and Apple to small startups to management consulting firms. She’s excited to help with interview preparation, resume and cover letter reviews, and networking. Employment experience: Boston Consulting...
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Taylor Wiegele
aesthetically pleasing for customers." After stints with Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing ("It's actually made of nothing that would torment the Berkeley hippie in me") and Brita water filters, Taylor got the call engineers dream of: Elon Musk's View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
Taking on risk
Having worked as an engineer at SpaceX and as an analyst at Oaktree Capital, Zach Lupei (MBA 2015) is now building a startup in the personal-finance space. (Published January 2015)
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- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
forward to my time at SpaceX where we found an incredible new technology for—of all things—capturing urine in a zero-gravity environment. A tiny lab was working on the technology that was going to save us mass, space, and complexity in...
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- 26 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
forward to my time at SpaceX where we found an incredible new technology for—of all things—capturing urine in a zero-gravity environment. A tiny lab was working on the technology that was going to save us mass, space, and complexity in...
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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Photo courtesy of Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: When Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004) started at HBS in 2002, the private space industry was really just starting to ramp up. Elon Musk...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
SpaceX launched and successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral just a few weeks later—delivering 11 satellites into low-Earth orbit for a commercial client—CEO Elon Musk noted that it costs $60 million to make the rocket...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- News
Keeping the Missions Under Control
sets [I needed] and the blind spots I had that I was not aware of, working internationally, and working with our corporate partnerships, which is really kind of new for NASA. “We’re partnering with commercial entities like SpaceX and...
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- 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...
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Pato Bichara
conversations here, I met Zach, who used to work for SpaceX and Elon Musk, one of the most visionary leaders we have today. Where else could you go to meet someone who used to design and build rockets? Multiply that awesomeness times 900...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
small commercial satellites deployed by BlackSky can be built relatively cheaply and quickly. They can hitch rides on rockets operated by companies such as SpaceX and Rocket Lab, much like passengers piling into a shared Uber. And once...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor...
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- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
the beginning of 2023. To scale this effort, we have hired a lot of SpaceX engineers and we are creating partnerships with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as well as engineering programs for women. Tell me your story....
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Capital, both companies he co-founded. The case outlines the technology—first brought to widespread attention by Tesla and SpaceX executive Elon Musk—then follows Pishevar as he builds a team, develops prototypes, recruits investors and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
capital flowing into space. Course materials included Weinzierl’s cases on SpaceX and Blue Origin, with guest speakers from those companies and other industry leaders and investors, as well as recommended movies such as Gravity, The...
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