San Francisco / Santa Clara / Napa / Contra Costa / Las Vegas / Philadelphia / San Mateo / Pittsburgh / Cleveland / Detroit / Marin / Boston / New York / Solano / Sonoma / Los Angeles / Troy / Alameda / Lukov / /
Company
Newsweek / Hotmail / Procter and Gamble / PayPal / U.S. Steel / Levi Strauss / Dow Chemical / Immigrant Inc. / The Henry Ford / Yahoo! / Life Time Fitness / The New York Times / eBay / Sun Microsystems / Carnival Cruises / Google / Liz Claiborne / Media Genesis / Pfizer / Detroit Free Press / Dupont / Bank of America / A123 Systems / Intel / /
Continent
America / /
Country
France / Canada / Poland / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / /
Facility
Migration Policy Institute / University of Michigan / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
IndustryTerm
web design / manufacturing processes / manufacturing / computing / auto manufacturing sector / biotechnology / retail / media stories / auto parts manufacturing / auto manufacturing / manufacturing techniques / /
OperatingSystem
Fork / Fermi / /
Organization
Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce / Michigan House of Representatives / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / City Council / Advisory Board / American Association of Engineering Societies / Michigan State Budget Office / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / PEW Center on States / EB-5 Investor Visa Regional Center / Bureau of Labor Statistics / MIT Entrepreneurship Center / Southeast Michigan Council of Governments / Michigan League for Human Services / Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Data Center / Harvard / Migration Policy Institute / Bureau of Economic Analysis / National Academy of Sciences / New Economy Initiative / Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce / and Skillman Foundation / National Venture Capital Association / U.S. Census Bureau / Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation / The Alliance / the University of Michigan / Mayor’s office of Global Affairs / /
Person
Ransom Olds / Willard Boyle / William Lincoln / Charles Elachi / Enrico Fermi / Andre Grove / Andrew Carnegie / Tao Yuan / Nia / Robert Litan / Richard Herman / Daniel Lyons / Andrew Sokoly / Kelli Kavanaugh / Jonas Salk / Kate Brennan / Jennifer Granholm / Thomas Friedman / Richard T. Herman / Robert L. Smith / Lou Glazer / Elizabeth Blackburn / Tom Walsh / Toshiko Mori / Sirgey Brin / Herta Mueller / Richard Florida / Tim Kane / Dave Bing / Elon Musk / Jennifer Hunt / Edith Castillo / Morris Tobocman / Greg Handel / Ada Yonath / Charles Wang / Paul Shane Morrow / T. Herman / Michaela Platzer / Melissa Garcia / See Smith / Stuart Anderson / Sergey Brin / Hong Lu / Raghav Singh / Sam Singh / Jerry Yang / Alexander Graham Bell / William Kerr / Robert Smith / Thom Costello / Albert Einstein / Marjolaine Gauthier-Loiselle / Steve Tobocman / Anna / Don Grimes / James Fallows / Pierre Omidyar / Ahmad Ezzedine / Future As / Venkatraman Ramakrishnan / Dave Davis / Jack Szostak / John Austin / Charles Kao / Edward Roberts / Patricia Mooradian / Ed Wolking / David Egner / Shirley Ann Jackson / Ed Egnatios / /
Position
Mayor / announcer / Cleveland Plain Dealer / President / interim and full-term Mayor / author / Professor of Management of Technology / Executive / Representative / Manager / important driver / Regional Cultural Ambassadors / Majority Floor Leader / Governor / Chair / industrial leader / /
ProvinceOrState
Oakland County / Ohio / Michigan / California / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
The Detroit Free Press / Newsweek / New York Times / The New York Times / Global Affairs / Detroit Free Press / The Detroit News / /
FINAL REPORT • AUGUST 11, 2010 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Less than a century ago, Morris Tobocman emigrated from Lukov, Poland to America without much of a formal education and, most likely, without formal legal status. He wo