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Abt Associates Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Their early work with the space agency was focused on using NASA technology in urban construction, science and technology as a tool to positively affect social and economic change. In 1967, Abt won its first contract with NASA, which would eventually turn into a long-term relationship. 1968 was an important year for Abt.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Training people with tools and models is very different from simply holding a space for leaders to be.