Barack Obama - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

proponents of such ideas have been advisers to both David Cameron in the U.K. (Richard Thaler) and Barack Obama in the US (Cass Sunstein). Behavioral economists advise regulators that, when in doubt, make... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

economic stagnation of the middle class? The labor movement supports the agenda that Barack Obama has skillfully outlined for revitalizing our economy and rebuilding the middle class. First, we have to have... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Syrian Electronic Army on April 23, 2013, the group tweeted out “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured” to the account’s almost 2 million followers. The resulting stock... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

generates interest on YouTube, you'll get this viral effect where everybody has to see this particular video. In the political realm, Barack Obama has been able to raise money with a kind of a viral... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

PiskorskiHarvard Business School Module Note 712-440 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712440-PDF-ENG Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (B)... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

technical employment needs. In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama underscored this point well: " Business leaders who want to hire in the United States can't find workers with the... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Advisory Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. Finally, Professor Sullivan was appointed Advisor to the Department of Justice Presidential Transition Team. In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane... View Details

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

the traditional ecosystem.” Consider YouTube sensations Bethany Mota, GloZell Green, and Hank Green, all of whom started out making low-tech videos in their bedrooms. President Barack Obama sat down for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack View Details

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

example, have witnessed at least four recessions.) What is distinct about this time, our time, is the breadth and magnitude of change—political, demographic, and technological—that is unfolding in and around large-scale economic shifts. Politically, the election of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

That in the 2012 election in Massachusetts when it was Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney, and when it was Elizabeth Warren versus Scott Brown. So you look at those elections, you think that everybody would... View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

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