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Featured Reports
The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap
By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman
Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, & Kristen Hines
Building From the Bottom Up
By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman
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Results
- May 2019
- Teaching Material
Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
This supplement discusses Amazon’s 2018 decision to split its HQ2 between two locations--Long Island City in New York and National Landing outside Washington, DC—as well as the ensuing response from local politicians and the public.
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- February 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Amazon's HQ2 (A)
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
In September 2017, the Internet giant Amazon announced that it aimed to open a second headquarters in some city other than Seattle, its current home base. By 2032, the company projected, this “HQ2” would be home to as many as 50,000 high-paying tech jobs and up to $5...
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- 21 Sep 2015
- News
- Politico
A Real Path to Shared Prosperity in America
By: Karen Mills, Joseph Fuller & Jan Rivkin
It’s not hard to see why Americans feel they are getting conflicting messages about the economy. On the one hand, they read in the headlines that the economic recovery is in full swing. Unemployment is down to 5.1 percent, lower than it was before the Great Recession....
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- 2013
- Other
Partial Credit: How America's School Superintendents See Business as a Partner
By: Jan Rivkin
This report presents the findings of the first-ever national survey of school superintendents on U.S. competitiveness and the role of business in improving education outcomes in the U.S., including specific actions that business leaders can take to support...
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- October 2013 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
Southwire and 12 For Life: Scaling Up? (A)
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Ryan Lee
Southwire, a leading maker of cable based in rural Georgia, has partnered with the local school system to staff a factory with at-risk high school students. The positive impact on student outcomes has been remarkable, and the factory makes a profit for the company. Now...
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