HBS Columbia Case Study Wins Industry Award
Harvard Business School's multimedia case study of the Columbia space shuttle disaster has won a 2006 Codie Award from the Software & Information Industry Association.
"Columbia's Final Mission" was named this year's Best Postsecondary Education Instructional/Curriculum Solution at the SIIA's annual awards ceremony held in San Francisco in May. The Codies, which are regarded as the Oscars of the software industry, recognize excellence in the software, digital content, and education technology industries.
Harvard Business School CIO Judy Stahl credited the close working relationship between HBS faculty and IT staff for the quality of the Columbia case study package. Faculty and staff work hard to apply emerging technologies to the curriculum in order to enhance students' learning experience, she said.
"Columbia's Final Mission" engages students in a role-playing exercise simulating the decision making process that took place at NASA in the hours before the space shuttle re-entered Earth's atmosphere. Each student plays the role of one of six managers or engineers. The program presents each player with actual emails, reports, and transcripts from NASA and allows them to listen to audio recordings of re-enacted meetings. The students then take part in a classroom reenactment of a Mission Management Team meeting where critical decisions about Columbia's re-entry were made. The exercise focuses on organizational dynamics that played a role in the shuttle disaster and is meant to teach students leadership perspectives and skills.
"Columbia's Final Mission" was created by former HBS Professor Michael Roberto and HBS Professors Amy Edmondson and Richard Bohmer together with IT multimedia producer Melissa Dailey, Flash developer Chris Lamothe, and research associate Erika Ferlins. HBS uses the case study in both its MBA and EMBA programs.
Source: "Harvard Business School Case Wins Codie Award" - press release, Harvard Business School (Cambridge, MA), June 5, 2006
"Columbia's Final Mission" was named this year's Best Postsecondary Education Instructional/Curriculum Solution at the SIIA's annual awards ceremony held in San Francisco in May. The Codies, which are regarded as the Oscars of the software industry, recognize excellence in the software, digital content, and education technology industries.
Harvard Business School CIO Judy Stahl credited the close working relationship between HBS faculty and IT staff for the quality of the Columbia case study package. Faculty and staff work hard to apply emerging technologies to the curriculum in order to enhance students' learning experience, she said.
"Columbia's Final Mission" engages students in a role-playing exercise simulating the decision making process that took place at NASA in the hours before the space shuttle re-entered Earth's atmosphere. Each student plays the role of one of six managers or engineers. The program presents each player with actual emails, reports, and transcripts from NASA and allows them to listen to audio recordings of re-enacted meetings. The students then take part in a classroom reenactment of a Mission Management Team meeting where critical decisions about Columbia's re-entry were made. The exercise focuses on organizational dynamics that played a role in the shuttle disaster and is meant to teach students leadership perspectives and skills.
"Columbia's Final Mission" was created by former HBS Professor Michael Roberto and HBS Professors Amy Edmondson and Richard Bohmer together with IT multimedia producer Melissa Dailey, Flash developer Chris Lamothe, and research associate Erika Ferlins. HBS uses the case study in both its MBA and EMBA programs.
Source: "Harvard Business School Case Wins Codie Award" - press release, Harvard Business School (Cambridge, MA), June 5, 2006
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