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The Space Shuttle Columbia's Final Mission
Hosted by Brian Kenny / Harvard Business Review
The Space Shuttle Columbia's Final Mission
Episode Summary
No organization wants to fail. But even for the best and the brightest, failure is inevitable, and occasionally that failure can be catastrophic. Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson describes her experience writing and teaching a case on the Columbia space shuttle's final mission, including the organizational challenges within NASA that contributed to it, and the lessons that can be taken from the tragedy.
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