State Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Inspiring conversations around the world

Sigal Bussel (MBA 2003) creates artwork intended to engage people around the world in a meaningful dialogue. Her large-scale, thought-provoking works have been displayed from Asia to the Middle East and from the United View Details

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Courtney Fairbrother

Courtney (Washington and Lee ’11) is the Associate Director for HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative as well as the Sustainability Sector Lead for the Career and Professional Development office. In these roles, she manages student and alumni View Details

Keywords: Energy; Clean Technology; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Government

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

fundraising prowess was aided by his appreciation and use of all communications media, notably the Internet, to engage voters. Obama picked up where Howard Dean left off. He leveraged his website, the blogosphere, and even user-generated... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Jun 2003
News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

Yael Taqqu “I want to be a storyteller. At the end of each day, I want to be able to sit down and find the story, no matter how obscured it may be.” Born: Israel, but grew up in New York, California, and Boston Winner: various Massachusetts View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
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MobSquad

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma

Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States

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19 Jul 2013
News

All in Good Time

possible. Its initial program focuses on partnering with school districts to coordinate federal and private funds to provide free breakfast in public schools. "Hunger in the United States is not like hunger in other parts of the world,"... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

23 Sep 2010
News

How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?

A recent issue of the Harbus offers a quick glimpse of what a few MBAs have been up to over the past three months. Internships based in the United States (at Major League Baseball, MTV Networks, and the U.S. Treasury Department, among... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2006
News

Nelson Mandela’s Right-Hand Man

In addition to conducting research, the HBS Leadership Initiative engages in other activities as well. Last November, for example, along with the HBS Africa Business Club, it served as the host for an event featuring African National... View Details

Keywords: Ahmed Kathrada; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jan 2021
News

Keeping the Coast Clear

Rhode Island’s resources for generations. Stone has led the group—the Ocean State’s largest environmental organization—since 2009; he joined as a volunteer in 1989. Considering it’s the smallest state in the country, Rhode Island has a... View Details

Keywords: Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

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Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Research & Applications Research & Applications National Competitiveness Strategies for Cross-National Regions Competitiveness of... View Details

13 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods

across the United States and Canada. We are constantly engaged with consumers who want food that is delicious and healthy, and we continue to innovate in order to provide products that satisfy these needs.... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Profile

Katie Laidlaw

and career path? HBS introduced me to more industries, jobs, companies, and roles than I thought possible. It helped me understand how private sector frameworks and analysis can be applied successfully in the public and non-profit sectors, and vice versa. I View Details

Keywords: Consulting

2020
Working Paper

Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat

During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details

Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States

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Anja Anliker

On September 11, 2001, Anja Anliker was a senior in high school. “Even though I had no direct relationship to any of the victims, the events of that day shook me to my core,” she says. “It made me think of the state of the world and our... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates

entire spectrum of manufacturing and service enterprises in the United States and upward of 100 other nations. Executive Education alumni are different from MBA alumni in important ways. Unlike the MBA Program, Executive Education... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Alumni Association Board of Directors; committee; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2017
News

The End of the Noncompete Clause

Johnson say the clauses stifle innovation and hamstring employees. Currently, only three states largely ban noncompetes: California, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Opposition groups in other states are working... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

15 Jun 2021
News

Turning Point: Tell Me More

boards, formalized my angel investing, and was off and running. In 2017, I launched a new online panel of 500 voters from all points along the political spectrum, of every age and ethnicity, and from every state in the union. For the next... View Details

Keywords: politics; communication; voting; demographics

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Mar 2019
News

Mission Critical

development. “I was fortunate to find my passion and actually wrap my career around it. LifeShare is an organ procurement organization federally designated to recover organs and tissues for transplantation. We cover the entire state of... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

by venture capital in the past decades, there were many failures. But collectively, the companies that did succeed represent a significant fraction of the private-sector jobs in the United States today. The key is to use everything we... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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