Allison Anderson

Allison Anderson focuses on gender and development in the Arab world. She is currently working on her dissertation about women’s economic participation in Jordan based on extensive fieldwork as a...
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Presenting to the Pros: Jackson School Students Research Cyberattack Attribution for Microsoft

July 29, 2017

Posted by: Jessica Beyer

Jackson School Applied Research Project students at Microsoft

During spring quarter, one of the Jackson School’s Applied Research Program student teams was given a daunting task – help Microsoft think about Brad Smith’s call for a Digital Geneva Convention. In addition to weighing in on current Microsoft strategy, the students found out that they were working on the exact same research task that Microsoft had asked RAND to tackle. The project was the fifth product of a Jackson School Applied Research collaboration with Microsoft’s Global Security Strategy & Diplomacy Team.