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Working Group on the Business and Economics of Space at Harvard Business School

November 3 - 4, 2017

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Division of Research and Faculty Development

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Kimberly Hagan khagan@hbs.edu
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Agenda

All sessions will be held in Chao Center, Room 340 unless otherwise noted.

Nov 3
9:00-9:45

Arrival & Breakfast

9:45-10:00

Welcome & Opening Remarks

10:00-11:00

Workshop Round 1

10:00-10:30 - Breakout groups debate and select research questions in topic areas:

A. Business strategy (Carissa Christensen chairs)
B. Innovation (Dava Newman chairs)
C. The role of government (Alex MacDonald chairs)

10:30-11:00 - Group presentations: 10 minutes for each breakout chair to present

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-12:00

Historical Analogies with Roger Launius

(Sophus Reinert facilitates)

12:00-1:00

Topic area A deep dive (part 1)

Narayana Hrudayalaya (Tarun Khanna leads discussion)

1:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-2:30

Topic area A deep dive (part 2)

Full group workshop on topic area A (Carissa Christensen chairs)

2:30-3:30

Research Briefs

(Ward Hanson, Greg Autry, Ken Davidian, Pat Hynes presenting)

3:30-4:00

Break

4:00-5:30

Topic area B deep dive

4:00-5:00 - Google Car (Karim Lakhani leads discussion)

5:00-5:30 - Full group workshop on topic area B (Dava Newman chairs)

5:30-6:00

Research Briefs

(Dava Newman, Martin Elvis presenting)

6:00

Dinner (Yi Ren Room, Chao)

Nov 4
8:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-10:30

Topic area C deep dive

9:00-10:00 - USSR: The Search for Growth (Matt Weinzierl leads discussion)

10:00-10:30 - Full group workshop on topic area C (Alex MacDonald chairs)

10:30-10:45

Break

10:45-11:15

Ethics of Space with John Rummel

11:15-12:00

Research Briefs

(Henry Hertzfeld, Robin Wordsworth, Scott Hubbard presenting)

12:00-12:15

Break

12:15-1:00

Workshop Round 2

12:15-12:45 - Breakout groups finalize list of research questions in topic areas

12:45-1:00 - Group presentations: 5 minutes for each breakout group to present

1:00-2:00

Closing Remarks & Lunch

2:00-6:00

Afternoon in Space at HBS (Hawes Hall 101)

All participants are invited to join

2:00-3:00 - Case discussion: Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space (Matt Weinzierl)

3:30-4:30 - Case discussion: Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and Regulation of the Space Economy (Matt Weinzierl)

5:00-6:00 - ISRO: Explore Space or Exploit CubeSats? (Raj Choudhury)

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