ABSTRACT

H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales at the Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, Buckingham Palace (30 January, 2014)

“During the course of Hubble’s working life such grand ambitions were thrown into doubt when the inability of the telescope to function properly turned it into the most ridiculed object on Earth, with one Senator anointing it with the derogatory tag of a ‘techno turkey’....The scientific mega-project of Hubble captured a complexity of organizational life, where management constantly endured the spectre of failure.”